Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
GeForce GTX 490
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Zacate
GF100
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
-
Interface
IGP
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
608 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
480
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
365 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
36.48
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
1536 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
3.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
164.0 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A