NVIDIA GeForce 8200 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8200 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8200

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8200

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 49 Watt
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 71 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 49 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	71 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 254 vs 156

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	254 vs 156

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8200
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

156

254

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8200	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	156	254
PassMark - G2D Mark	71	68
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	600
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	600

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8200	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	C78	G71
Launch date	17 April 2007	1 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1620	1507
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$259
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	278 million
Texture fill rate		9 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1320 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3