NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 612 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.3x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 128 vs 24
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 643 vs 270

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2007 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	612 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 24
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	643 vs 270

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 171 Watt
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 264 vs 252

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 171 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	264 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

252

264

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	643	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	252	264

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G80	G71
Launch date	2 May 2007	18 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$829
Place in performance rating	615	618
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	612 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	612
Floating-point performance	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	128	24
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	270 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	103.7 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
SLI