NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE 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 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 275 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 532 MHz
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 258 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 March 2006 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 532 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	258 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 166 vs 160

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	166 vs 160

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

166

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE
PassMark - G3D Mark	258	59
PassMark - G2D Mark	160	166

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G71	NV40 A1
Launch date	9 March 2006	30 September 2005
Place in performance rating	1021	1022
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 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
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
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	8.51 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	532 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2