NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

GeForce Go 7900 GTX videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 18 April 2006. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Curie microarchitecture codenamed G71.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Boost clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 12 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 24. Manufacturing process technology - 90 nm. Transistors count - 278 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 45 Watt.

Memory type: 256. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 600 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1200 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 38.4 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1294
264
PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38534
270
Name Value
PassMark - G2D Mark 264
PassMark - G3D Mark 270

Games performance

Left 4 Dead (2008)

High, 1024x76851.00

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Medium, 1024x76838.00
High, 1280x102427.00

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

Low, 1024x76857.70
Medium, 1024x76838.70
High, 1024x76829.60

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x76851.50
Medium, 1024x76817.20

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768175.50

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480139.90
Medium, 640x480135.00
High, 800x600139.70
Ultra, 1024x768133.70

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768326.80

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Curie
Code name G71
Launch date 18 April 2006
Place in performance rating 621
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 500 MHz
Core clock speed 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm
Pipelines 24
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz
Memory type 256
Shared memory 0