Radeon E9173 PCIe vs HD 7290

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)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLovelandLexa
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 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 cores80512
Core clock speed400 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors450 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20039.01
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
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 outputs1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 June 2012 3 October 2017
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 35 Watt

HD 7290 has 94.4% lower power consumption.

E9173 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon E9173 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7290 is a desktop card while Radeon E9173 PCIe is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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