AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
7.9x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 143 Watt
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 48 vs 32

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 June 2012 vs 12 February 2007
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 143 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	48 vs 32

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 513 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 419 vs 112

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	513 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	419 vs 112

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

112

419

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	112	419
PassMark - G2D Mark	48	32
Geekbench - OpenCL	1488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	548
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	548
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1187

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Loveland	G80
Launch date	6 June 2012	12 February 2007
Place in performance rating	1624	1621
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$269
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	513 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt	143 Watt
Transistor count	450 million	681 million
Floating-point performance		228.1 gflops
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		12.31 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		320 MB
Memory bandwidth		63.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		320 Bit
Memory clock speed		1584 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3