GeForce 2 Go (200 / 100) vs Radeon HD 7290

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1339not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameLovelandNV11
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)1 March 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 cores801
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed400 MHz166 MHz
Number of transistors450 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt2 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200no data
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared32 / 64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared143 MHz
Shared memory+-

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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)DDR
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 June 2012 1 March 2001
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 2 Watt

HD 7290 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

2 Go (200 / 100), on the other hand, has 800% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and GeForce 2 Go (200 / 100). We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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NVIDIA GeForce 2 Go (200 / 100)
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