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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 7290 | Quadro NVS 135M |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 9087% |
| Hitman 3 | 8300% | 11851% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 8302% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 6357% | 9087% |
| FIFA 21 | 3157% | 4534% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 12827% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 8030% |
| Genshin Impact | 6357% | 9087% |
| The Medium | 7957% | 11363% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 13193% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 7290 are significantly better than the Nvidia Quadro NVS 135M.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over three years more recently than the Quadro NVS 135M, 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 Quadro NVS 135M 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 Quadro NVS 135M 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 Quadro NVS 135M 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 Quadro NVS 135M. This means that the Radeon HD 7290 is expected to run much cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Quadro NVS 135M. While they exhibit similar graphical performance, the Radeon HD 7290 should consume less power than the Quadro NVS 135M.
The Radeon HD 7290 requires 9 Watts to run and the Quadro NVS 135M requires 10 Watts. The Quadro NVS 135M requires 1 Watts more than the Radeon HD 7290 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Quadro NVS 135M 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 | G86M | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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| Driver Support | Poor |
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| Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 | | vs | 09 May 2007 | |
| 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 | | 600 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | | vs | | 64 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | | GDDR3 | |
| 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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| 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 | - | |
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| 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 | |
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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. | Quadro NVS 135M 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 135M, however, isn't one of them. The support for DirectX 10 becomes ridiculous when it comes to gaming because eventhough Quadro NVS 135M is clearly better than the previous models it's still incapable of playing today's games like Crysis 2 and Metro 2033, even at the lowest settings and even older games like Resident Evil 5 that use DirectX 10 are most probably unplayable too. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||