Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 7290 | GeForce 9100M |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 11921% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 10895% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 10538% |
| FIFA 21 | 3157% | 5964% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 16815% |
| Hitman 3 | 8300% | 15538% |
| Genshin Impact | 6357% | 11921% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 17294% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 9157% | 17134% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 6129% | 11496% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 7290 are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce 9100M.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over three years more recently than the GeForce 9100M, and so the Radeon HD 7290 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GeForce 9100M when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The Radeon HD 7290 and the GeForce 9100M have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.
The Radeon HD 7290 has 8.5 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce 9100M, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon HD 7290 is marginally better than the GeForce 9100M.
The Radeon HD 7290 has 80 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce 9100M has 8. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 7290 is 16 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce 9100M is 4. The Radeon HD 7290 having 12 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon HD 7290 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce 9100M.
The Radeon HD 7290 requires 9 Watts to run and the GeForce 9100M requires 12 Watts. The GeForce 9100M requires 3 Watts more than the Radeon HD 7290 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GeForce 9100M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the Radeon HD 7290.
| Core Speed | 280 MHz | vs |  | 450 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 400 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 Loveland | - | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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| Driver Support | Poor |
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| Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 | | vs | 03 Jun 2008 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 2.1
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| 1600x900 | 1.5
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vs | - | |
| 1920x1080 | 0.8
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vs | - | |
| 2560x1440 | 0.5
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vs | - | |
| 3840x2160 | - | |
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| Memory | N/A | vs | N/A | ||
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| Memory Speed | 533 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | vs | | 128 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | - | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 8.5GB/sec | | vs | - | |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | |
vs | - | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 80 | | vs | 8 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | 0% | |
| Technology | 40nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 8 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 2.2 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 1.1 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 2560x1600 | | vs | | 2560x1600 |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 9 Watts | | vs | 12 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 11.0 | | vs | 10 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | 4.0 | |
| Open GL | 4.3 | | vs | 2.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | | yes | |
| Dedicated | no | vs | no | ||
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| Recommended Processor | AMD APU C-70 | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 3 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1280x720 | | - | ||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Overview Radeon HD 7290 is an Integrated Graphics Card, on the APU C-70, based on the second revision of the Terascale Architecture. Architecture The Second variant of the Terascale 2 Architecture is still manufactured with a 40nm technology and despite allowing more Stream Cores, their design remains more or less the same compared to the first variant. GPU It equips a GPU codenamed Loveland which has 1 Compute Units activated and thus offers 80 Shader Processing Units, 8 TMUs and 4 ROPs. The Central Unit Initially Runs at 280MHz and goes up to 400MHz, in Turbo Mode. Memory The GPU Shares the System's RAM which varies from laptop to laptop. Typically, the GPU reserves 1GB. Depending on whether or not the system's RAM is Dual-Channeled, it can access either a 64-bit or 128-bit memory interface. The operating memory clock also depends on the at which speed the System's RAM is running and is limited by the highest operating speed that the Processor supports. In this case, it is 533MHz. It is then obvious the Memory Bandwidth depends on a lot of factors and thus Radeon HD 7310's performance may vary from system to system. Features DirectX 11.0 Support (11.0 Hardware Default) and support for HD3D, Eyefinity, App Acceleration, PowerPlay and other technologies. Performance Radeon HD 7290 is a direct re-brand of Radeon HD 6290. Gaming benchmarks put its performance on level with the older Radeon HD 6290. System Suggestions We recommend 4GB of RAM for a system with Radeon HD 7290. | The NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G motherboard GPU brings enhanced system performance to the value segment. Enjoy a Blu-ray movie with NVIDIA PureVideo HD. When combined with a GeForce 9M series discrete GPU with Hybrid SLI technology, system performance level can increase supporting visually-intense applications and game-play without breaking your wallet. This product is also enabled for CUDA applications. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||