Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple A12Z Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	10076
PassMark - G3D Mark		254
PassMark - G2D Mark		68

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1495	1493
Architecture		Curie
Code name		G71
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate		9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		49 Watt
Transistor count		278 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1320 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.1