NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) 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 - T-Rex (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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 3x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 6.6x more texture fill rate: 59.72 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 1320 MHz
  • 17.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4463 vs 254
  • 4.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 292 vs 68
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2017 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 1354 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 vs 254
PassMark - G2D Mark 292 vs 68

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 49 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4463
254
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
292
68
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 254
PassMark - G2D Mark 292 68
Geekbench - OpenCL 17466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2084

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Curie
Code name GP106B G71
Launch date 1 February 2017 1 May 2006
Place in performance rating 595 1507
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $259

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1493 MHz
Core clock speed 1354 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,911 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s 9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 49 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.1 GB / s 42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1320 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection