NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 77% higher core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 650 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
6x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 84 Watt

Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 84 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

3.7x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 388 vs 151
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 165 vs 149

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	388 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	165 vs 149

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

388

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

165

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	151	388
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	165
Geekbench - OpenCL	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1015
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1015

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT218	G71
Launch date	10 January 2010	9 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1330	1333
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1150 MHz	650 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	36.8 gflops
Gigaflops	55
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	84 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0