ATI Radeon HD 3200 Mobile IGP vs HD 7290

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)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameLovelandRS780
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)1 November 2009 (15 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 cores8040
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors450 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.2002.000
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs84

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 1.0 x16

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 SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 June 2012 1 November 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

HD 7290 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon HD 3200 Mobile IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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