NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

ATI Radeon HD 4890

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 124.8GB/s)

20960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +7966%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

1.36 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon HD 4890

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 50

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

975 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

124.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

800

680

TMUs

40

192

ROPs

16

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

272.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

190W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

RV790

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.959 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

4.1

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