NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 254 vs 192

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2006 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	254 vs 192

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 72 vs 68

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	72 vs 68

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	254	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	68	72

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G71	NV40 A1
Launch date	1 May 2006	8 December 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$259	$249
Place in performance rating	1493	1494
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	42.2 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3