Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Zacate
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
April 2007
Interface
IGP
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
32
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
9.600
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
24 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A