NVIDIA GM204 vs AMD Radeon HD 7290

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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)Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code nameZacateGM204
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 July 2011 (12 years old)no data
Current price$160 $114

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 cores802048
Core clock speed280 MHzno data
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors450 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.200no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7290 and GM204 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.

InterfaceIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

NVENCno data5th Gen
PureVideo HDno dataVP6

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDAno data5.2

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and GM204. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7290 is a notebook card while GM204 is a desktop one.


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