The 7900 GS is based on the same layout of the GeForce 7900 GT reference board.

Although the G71 is a powerful and complex graphical processor, the final cooling system surprising has relatively small dimensions due to the GPU’s lesser thermal and energy needs. For this reason, NVIDIA has adopted the same compact cooling system for this card that is seen on the GeForce 7900 GT and GeForce 7600 GT video cards. The heatsink and fan are relatively small. The memory modules, as can be seen in the photo, lack a cooling system. Thanks to the smaller cooling solution, the video card turns out to occupy a single PCI Express 16x slot.

Similar to all other video cards in the G71 lineup, the GeForce 7900 GS requires a six-pin PCI-E connector for additional power. The card also features a SLI connector through which two 7900 GS video cards can be joined together.

The card also comes with a Dual DVI-I solution and an S-Video out.