NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 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 GT 710 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Launch date	2 April 2012 vs 2 April 2006
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 1320 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP

Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF119	G71
Launch date	2 April 2012	2 April 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3