Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLovelandEllesmere
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)24 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

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 cores802304
Core clock speed400 MHz1243 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors450 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200179.0
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS5.728 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs8144

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 x16
Lengthno data305 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 Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

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 24 April 2017
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 250 Watt

HD 7290 has 1288.9% lower power consumption.

Pro Duo Polaris, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Radeon HD 7290 is a notebook card while Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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