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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 7290 | Quadro NVS 140M 256MB GDDR3 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 7190% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 6568% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 6352% |
| Hitman 3 | 8300% | 9384% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 10158% |
| FIFA 21 | 3157% | 3577% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 10448% |
| Genshin Impact | 6357% | 7190% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 9157% | 10352% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 6129% | 6932% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 7290 are very slightly better than the Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M 256MB GDDR3.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over three years more recently than the NVS 140M, 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 NVS 140M 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 NVS 140M 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 NVS 140M does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon HD 7290 transistor size technology is 40 nm (nanometers) smaller than the NVS 140M. This means that the Radeon HD 7290 is expected to run much cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the NVS 140M. While they exhibit similar graphical performance, the Radeon HD 7290 should consume less power than the NVS 140M.
The Radeon HD 7290 requires 9 Watts to run and the Quadro NVS 140M 256MB GDDR3 requires 10 Watts. The NVS 140M requires 1 Watts more than the Radeon HD 7290 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the NVS 140M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the Radeon HD 7290.
| Core Speed | 280 MHz | vs |  | 400 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 400 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 Loveland | G84M | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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vs | - | |
| Driver Support | Poor |
| vs | - | |
| Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 | | vs | 05 Sep 2007 | |
| 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 | - | |
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| Memory | N/A | vs | | 256 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 533 MHz | vs | | 700 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | | vs | | 64 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | | GDDR3 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 8.5GB/sec | vs | | 11.2GB/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 | 80nm | |
| 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 | 1600x1200 | |
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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 | 10 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 | 3.3 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
| 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. | Quadro NVS 140M is a business card with support for special drivers that are certified for professional applications like Microsoft Office Suite, Hummingbird Exceed, Lotus Notes, etc. It's part of the Quadro NVS Mobile Series released by NVIDIA, in 2006/2007/2010. Though business cards have no driver support for games, some of them deliver astonishing performance (e.g. Quadro 6000, Tesla C2075). Quadro NVS 140M, however, isn't one of them. The performance is enough for all old games and some modern games like the Fifa Series but it's still incapable of playing today's games like Crysis 2 and Metro 2033, even at the lowest settings. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||