Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7290
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Zacate
New Zealand
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
August 2012
Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
450 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
118.4
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
3 GB
Memory bus width
System Shared
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131