NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +3870%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

640

328

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

16

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

RV790

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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