NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 7900 GS is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 90 nm process and based on the G71 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

G71

Model number

G71-N-A2

Architecture

Curie

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

90 nm

Transistors

278 million

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

May 1st, 2006

Family

GeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)

Production

End-of-life

Launch Price

259 USD

Predecessor

GeForce 6 PCIe

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

256 MB

Memory Type

GDDR3

Memory Bus

256 bit

Bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

7.200 GPixel/s

Vertex fillrate

787.5 MVertices/s

Texture fillrate

9.000 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

660 MHz
1320 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

450 MHz

Render Config

TMUs

20

ROPs

16

Pixel Shaders

20

Vertex Shaders

7

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Length

198 mm
7.8 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

49 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

Display Connectors

2x DVI
1x S-Video

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Board Number

P455

API support

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

3.0