AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 4890

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1760 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +256%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 4890

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

975 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.8GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

10

-

2560

Shading Units

800

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

272.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV790

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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