ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs HD 7290

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1338not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.11no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameLovelandHemlock
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)no data

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 cores801440
Core clock speed400 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors450 million2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt302 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20052.20
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPSno data
ROPs432
TMUs872

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data280 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared4 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 302 Watt

HD 7290 has 1577.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and Radeon HD 5950. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7290 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5950 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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