AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 315M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 48 vs 36
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 June 2012 vs 5 January 2011
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 48 vs 36

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315M

  • 3x more core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 18 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 112
  • Around 96% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2910 vs 1488
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1401 vs 1187
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1401 vs 1187
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1212 MHz vs 400 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 18 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 115 vs 112
Geekbench - OpenCL 2910 vs 1488
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1401 vs 1187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1401 vs 1187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 315M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
112
115
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
48
36
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1488
2910
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1187
1401
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1187
1401
Name AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 315M
PassMark - G3D Mark 112 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 48 36
Geekbench - OpenCL 1488 2910
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 548
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 548
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1187 1401
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1187 1401

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Loveland GT218
Launch date 6 June 2012 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1633 1636
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 1212 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 450 million 260 million
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 38.78 gflops
Gigaflops 73
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 4.85 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0