NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G71 GF119
GPU variant G71-N-A2 GF119-300-A1
Architecture Curie Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 278 million 292 million
Die size 196 mm² 79 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 2nd, 2006 Apr 13th, 2011
Generation GeForce 7 AGP GeForce 500
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 145 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 AGP GeForce 400
Successor GeForce 8 GeForce 600
Launch price 59 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 450 MHz 810 MHz
Memory clock 660 MHz 1320 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1620 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 42.24 GB/s 14.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 20
Vertex shaders 7
TMUs 20 8
ROPs 16 4
Shading units 48
SM count 1
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 128 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 7.200 GPixel/s 1.620 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 787.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 9.000 GTexel/s 6.480 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 155.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 12.96 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 65 W 29 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors 1x Molex None
Board number P492 P1310
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 2.1 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

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