Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce 8300 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7290 vs GeForce 8300
Radeon HD 7290
114
GeForce 8300
104
Radeon HD 7290
GeForce 8300
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Zacate
C78
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
April 2007
Interface
IGP
PCI
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
16
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
4.000
Memory type
System Shared
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
System Shared
Memory bus width
System Shared
System Shared
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A