Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon 8500 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
Radeon 8500 XT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Zacate
R250
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
June 2002
Interface
IGP
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
-
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
2.400
Memory type
System Shared
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
-
9.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A