Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Radeon HD 7290 | HD i7 2617M |
| Hitman 3 | 8300% | 4465% |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 3409% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 3110% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 6357% | 3409% |
| FIFA 21 | 3157% | 1670% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 4838% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 3006% |
| Genshin Impact | 6357% | 3409% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 4978% |
| The Medium | 7957% | 4279% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel HD i7 2617M are significantly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7290.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over a year more recently than the HD i7 2617M, and so the Radeon HD 7290 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the HD i7 2617M.
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 HD i7 2617M have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.
The HD i7 2617M has 2.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Radeon HD 7290, which means that the memory performance of the HD i7 2617M is marginally better than the Radeon HD 7290.
The Radeon HD 7290 has 80 Shader Processing Units but the HD i7 2617M 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 HD i7 2617M.
| Core Speed | 280 MHz | vs |  | 350 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 400 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 Loveland | Sandy Bridge | |||
| OC Potential | None | vs | None | ||
| Driver Support | Poor |
| vs | - | |
| Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 |  | vs | 20 Feb 2011 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 2.1
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vs | - | |
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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 | - | |
vs | |
- |
| Memory | N/A | vs | N/A | ||
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| Memory Speed | 533 MHz | vs | | 667 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | | vs | | 64 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | | DDR3 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 8.5GB/sec | vs | | 10.7GB/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 | - | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 2560x1600 | | vs | | 2560x1600 |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| 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 | 10.1 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | - | |
| Open GL | 4.3 | | vs | - | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | no | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| 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. | HD i7 2617M is a specific version of the Intel HD 3000 Graphics that comes with the CPU 'Core i7-2617M 2-Core 1.5GHz'. It uses the CPU's Level 3 Cache (up to 4 MB, in this case) + part of the RAM installed on the system up to a maximum of approximately 1.7GB for Vista/7 and 1 GB for XP. The Memory controller supports DDR3-1066 and DDR3-1333 and the Turbo Boost technology of the processor can over-clock the graphics card clock from 350MHz to 950MHz. Nevertheless it's still an integrated GPU with shared memory so its performance is very limited. Still, demanding games like Crysis 2 should still run on the lowest settings. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||