ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE 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)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameLovelandM24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)1 June 2004 (20 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed400 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors450 million75 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.2001.600
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPSno data
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
WidthIGPno 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 Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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)9.0b
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 June 2012 1 June 2004
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

HD 7290 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7290 and Mobility Radeon X600 SE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7290 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon X600 SE is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7290
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ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE
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