GeForce 7300 GS and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 7300 GS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G72

Caicos

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2006

July 2013

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

450 MHz

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

112 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.800

7.000

Memory type

DDR2

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

532 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4.256 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

3.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A