GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
CORE STATE
G71
VRAM
256 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
49 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
90 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2006
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1710 MHz
TDP
350 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
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DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
7900 GS
RTX 3080 12 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
—
8,960
Shaders
—
8,960
TMUs
20
280
+1300.0%
ROPs
16
96
+500.0%
SM Count
—
70
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1710 MHz
GPU Clock
450 MHz
—
Memory Clock
660 MHz
1320 Mbps effective
1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
256 MB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
256
12,288
+4700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR3
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
—
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
—
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
9.000 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
—
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
70
Tensor Cores
—
280
Power
TDP
49 W
350 W
TDP (W)
49
350
+614.3%
Suggested PSU
200 W
750 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Curie
Ampere
GPU Name
G71
GA102
Generation
GeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
GeForce 30
Process Size
90 nm
8 nm
Transistors
278 million
28,300 million
Die Size
196 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
1.4M / mm²
45.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
2.1.2 (full)
3.x (partial)
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
—
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
198 mm
7.8 inches
285 mm
11.2 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
259 USD
799 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 6 PCIe
GeForce 20
Successor
GeForce 8
GeForce 40