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Game | Radeon HD 7290 | Mobility Radeon HD 4270 |
Hitman 3 | 8300% | 7177% |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 6357% | 5494% |
Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 5806% | 5016% |
FIFA 21 | 3157% | 2722% |
Grand Theft Auto VI | 8986% | 7771% |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5614% | 4850% |
Resident Evil 8 | 6357% | 5494% |
Genshin Impact | 6357% | 5494% |
Far Cry 6 | 9243% | 7994% |
The Medium | 7957% | 6880% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4270 are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7290.
The Radeon HD 7290 was released over a year more recently than the Radeon HD, 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 Radeon HD.
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 has 512 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 and the Mobility Radeon HD 4270 has 40. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 7290 is 16 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD is 24. The Radeon HD having 8 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Radeon HD 7290 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.
The Radeon HD 7290 requires 9 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Mobility Radeon HD 4270.
Core Speed | 280 MHz | vs | ![]() | 590 MHz | |
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Boost Clock | 400 MHz | ![]() | vs | - | |
Architecture | Terascale 2 Loveland | RV620 | |||
OC Potential | None |
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Driver Support | Poor |
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Release Date | 05 Jun 2012 | ![]() | vs | 01 May 2010 | |
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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1920x1080 | 0.8
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2560x1440 | 0.5
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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 | ![]() | DDR3 |
Memory Bandwidth | 8.5GB/sec | ![]() | vs | - | |
L2 Cache | 1024 KB | ![]() |
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Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
Memory Performance | 0% | ![]() |
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Comparison |
Shader Processing Units | 80 | ![]() | vs | 40 | |
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Actual Shader Performance | 1% | ![]() | vs | ![]() | 1% |
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 | 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 | 10.1 | |
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Shader Model | 5.0 | ![]() | vs | ![]() | 5.0 |
Open GL | 4.3 | ![]() | vs | 2.0 | |
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 | ![]() | - |
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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. | Mobility Radeon HD 4270 is an entry-class GPU part of the Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series released from 2009 to 2010. It uses shared memory so the performance is very very limited and not recommended for even the casual gamers since only old games (before 2005) will run smoothly at decent settings. Today's games are most likely unplayable. |
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Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
GPU Variants | - | - |