
Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon 9800 XXL - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
Radeon 9800 XXL
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
Zacate
R360
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
October 2003
Interface
IGP
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
Floppy
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
390 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
-
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.200
3.120
Memory type
System Shared
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
676 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
21.63 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A