ATI Radeon 7000 PCI vs HD 6290

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameCedarRV100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 December 2011 (12 years ago)19 February 2001 (23 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz133 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors292 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2000.4
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs83

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 2.0 x16PCI
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz133 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s2.128 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2011 19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 23 Watt

HD 6290 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 350% more advanced lithography process, and 21.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6290 and Radeon 7000 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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