NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G71 G92
GPU variant G71-U-N-A2 N10E-GT
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 278 million 754 million
Die size 196 mm² 324 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 9th, 2006
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 145 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 950 MHz 1900 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1375 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 60.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 24
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 24 56
ROPs 16 16
Shading units 112
SM count 14
Cache L2 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.40 GPixel/s 8.800 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.300 GVertices/s
Texture rate 15.60 GTexel/s 30.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 308.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot
TDP 84 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number P348

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Mar 3rd, 2009
Generation GeForce 200M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 100M
Successor GeForce 300M

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