Radeon HD 6290 IGP vs GeForce 830A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking765not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.40no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGM108Loveland
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25680
Core clock speed1082 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1150 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data450 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt9 Watt
Texture fill rate18.403.200
Floating-point processing power0.5888 TFLOPS0.064 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 7 January 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 9 Watt

GeForce 830A has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6290 IGP, on the other hand, has 266.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 830A and Radeon HD 6290 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 830A
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