Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce 6600 GT AGP - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Zacate
NV43 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
November 2004
Interface
IGP
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x Molex
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
-
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
4.000
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
15.2 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