GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce 7900 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce 7900 GTX
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
GeForce 7900 GTX
399
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce 7900 GTX
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
March 2006
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
84 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-