NVIDIA GeForce 800M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 800M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 800M

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 49 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 36% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 457 vs 254
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 203 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	457 vs 254
PassMark - G2D Mark	203 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 52% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 800M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

203

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 800M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	457	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	203	68
Geekbench - OpenCL	1303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	109.13
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	15.218
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	703
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1601
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	703
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1601

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 800M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF117	G71
Launch date	17 March 2014	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1496	1494
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus