Radeon HD 7290 and GP106B - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7290

GP106B

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Zacate

GP106B

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

July 2011

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Interface

IGP

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Boost clock speed

400 MHz

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Core clock speed

280 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

450 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

80

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

18 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.200

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Memory type

System Shared

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Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

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Memory bus width

System Shared

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Memory clock speed

System Shared

-

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

PureVideo HD

-

VP8