The NVidia GeForce 7900 GS was introduced by the leading manufacturer of this group of devices in 2008. Essentially, this accelerator is based on a stripped-down version of the G71 microprocessor, which was also used in the flagship 7900 GT accelerator. It is his positioning, equipment and specifications that will be described in this review.
Device positioning. Equipment
Nominally, the predecessor of this accelerator belonged to the category of flagship and high-performance solutions. But it was introduced a year earlier. The hero of this review at the time of appearance on store shelves could be attributed to the group of mid-range devices. That is, he had sufficient performance to implement any possible task, but in some adverse cases it was necessary to degrade the quality of the image displayed by him. The complete set of this device included:
- Accelerator.
- Disk with software and documentation.
- Graphic subsystem manual.
- Warranty card.
Characteristics. Specifications
The characteristics of the NVidia GeForce 7900 GS, as previously noted, indicated the presence of a truncated version of the G71 graphics chip. It included 20 shader processors, 7 vertex modules and 20 texture units. All its elements functioned at 450 MHz. The volume of the video buffer could be 256 MB or 512 MB. The type of memory used is GDDR3, which was connected to the GPU via a 256-bit bus. The frequency of RAM chips was 1350 MHz.
Conclusion
At the time the NVidia GeForce 7900 GS appeared in computer hardware stores, it could really offer a lot to its potential owners. It could be successfully used in gaming computers, and even in a graphics station. But today this discrete adapter is outdated and is suitable for implementing the least simple tasks on a computer. The latter include, for example, office suites. Well, it will be difficult to accomplish more complex tasks for such an accelerator.