ATI Radeon 9800 XXL vs HD 7290

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	Loveland	R360
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 June 2012 (12 years ago)	1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores	80	no data
Core clock speed	400 MHz	390 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	450 million	117 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	3.200	3.120
Floating-point processing power	0.064 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	8	8

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).

Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	Floppy

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 type	System Shared	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	128 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	338 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	21.63 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 Connectors

No outputs

2x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 June 2012	1 October 2003
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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