NVIDIA GeForce7900 GS

The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS is a mid-range graphics card from NVIDIA, launched in May 2006. It is built on the Curie architecture using the G71 GPU chip fabricated on a 90 nm process node. The card features 20 shading units, a base clock of 450 MHz, and 0.256 GB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 42.24 GB/s. It has a board power (TDP) of 50 W and is available with either an AGP 8x or PCIe x16 bus interface. The 7900 GS was positioned as a more affordable option compared to higher-end models like the 7900 GT and 7900 GTX, targeting mainstream gamers.