NVIDIA Tegra 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameZacateTegra 2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 July 2011 (12 years old)3 June 2010 (13 years old)
Current priceno data$0.99

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores80no data
Core clock speed280 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2001.600
Floating-point performance104 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6290 and Tegra 2 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory+no data

Video outputs and ports

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 HDMINo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4ES 2.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 July 2011 3 June 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB System Shared
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 20 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6290 and Tegra 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6290 is a notebook card while Tegra 2 is a desktop one.


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