Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 7290 | GeForce Go 6600 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 6432% |
| Hitman 3 | 8300% | 8397% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 5874% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 6357% | 6432% |
| FIFA 21 | 3157% | 3195% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 9091% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 5680% |
| Genshin Impact | 6357% | 6432% |
| The Medium | 7957% | 8050% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 9351% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 7290 are marginally better than the Nvidia GeForce Go 6600.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over three years more recently than the GeForce Go 6600, 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 Go 6600 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 GeForce Go 6600 has 256 MB video memory, but the Radeon HD 7290 does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon HD 7290 has 80 Shader Processing Units but the GeForce Go 6600 does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon HD 7290 requires 9 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce Go 6600.
| Core Speed | 280 MHz | vs |  | 375 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 400 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 Loveland | NV43M | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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| Driver Support | Poor |
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| Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 | | vs | 29 Sep 2005 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| 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 | | 256 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 533 MHz | | vs | 300 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | vs | | 128 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | DDR2 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 8.5GB/sec | vs | | 9.6GB/sec | |
| 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 | - | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | - | |
| 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 | - | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 9 Watts | - | |||
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 11.0 | | vs | 9 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | 3.0 | |
| Open GL | 4.3 | | vs | 2.0 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
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| Recommended Processor | AMD APU C-70 | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 3 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1280x720 | | - | ||
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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. | NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 is the mobile version of the fairly weak GeForce 6600. Unlike the previous GPUS on the series, not only it uses DDR2 memory type, it can use up to 256MB of dedicated memory so it might be able to run most of the old games fluently and old demanding games like Caesar IV on low (most likely) or medium settings (depending on the resolution). Still, it can't handle today's current games. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||