ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 124.8GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4890

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +256%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

975 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

124.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

40

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

34.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1360 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

272.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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