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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS is a laptop graphics processor released on April 1, 2006. It has 256 MB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus, 32.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 375 MHz and a 20 W board power rating. It scores 178 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

G71MMobile

7/10 key specs recorded · 26 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields, 1 PassMark workload

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

256 MB

GDDR3 · 256-bit

Boost clock

n/a

375 MHz base

Board power

20 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS scores 178 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 23.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,227), measured across 58 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 88.

PassMark G3D Mark

178

Rank #2,227
Faster than 23.6% of 2,658 GPUs
58 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 5.1% of 1,675 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS averages DirectX 9 4 fps, across 58 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe x16

Max memory 256 MB

Core clock 375 MHz

Memory clock 1000 MHz

DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.1

Max TDP 20 W

First benchmarked 2009-11-06

Samples 58

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS states the PCIe x16 interface, up to 256 MB of memory, a core clock of 375 MHz, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1, first benchmarked on 2009-11-06. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G71M

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS uses the G71M graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units Not recorded

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 20

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 20 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS.

Clock speeds

Base clock 375 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS runs at a base clock of 375 MHz.

Memory

Size 256 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width 256-bit

Bandwidth 32.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS is equipped with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 32.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS has a board power rating of 20 W and it connects over PCIe x16.

Board power (TDP) 20 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe x16

Market

Launched April 1, 2006

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series GeForce 7 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS was released on April 1, 2006.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 178

PassMark G2D 88

Rank #2,227

Samples 58

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

DirectX 9.0c (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2.1

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS.