GeForce 9800M GT and GeForce 7900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800M GT vs GeForce 7900 GT
GeForce 9800M GT
392
GeForce 7900 GT
266
GeForce 9800M GT
GeForce 7900 GT
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT2
G71
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
450 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
-
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
48 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.00
10.80
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A