AMD Radeon HD 6290: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6290 sales 1 July 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Terascale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 19 Watt.
We have no data on Radeon HD 6290 benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6290: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
GPU code name | Zacate | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 1 July 2011 (12 years old) |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 6290's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6290's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 80 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 280 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Boost clock speed | 400 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
Number of transistors | 292 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 5.200 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 104 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 6290's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6290: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Shared memory | + |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6290. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI | |
HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6290, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
Shader Model | 5.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6290. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6290 is GeForce GT 230M.
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