Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7290 vs GeForce 6500
Radeon HD 7290
114
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon HD 7290
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Zacate
NV44 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
October 2005
Interface
IGP
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
-
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.200
1.600
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.512 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A