ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 124.8GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4890

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +145%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

975 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

124.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

28

800

Shading Units

1792

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

34.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1360 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

272.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x 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 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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