GeForce 8800 GS and GeForce 7900 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce 7900 GS
GeForce 8800 GS
340
GeForce 7900 GS
261
GeForce 8800 GS
GeForce 7900 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G92
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
May 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
26.40
9.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A