NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G71	G71
Launch date	1 October 2006	28 September 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	7.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	278 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	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	42.2 GB / s	40.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3