ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4890

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 124.8GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4890

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +423%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Nov 2018

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

975 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

124.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

36

-

800

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

34.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1360 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

272.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Polaris 30

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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