Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 4890

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 4890
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4890

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

115 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4890 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4890

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4890
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsRV790 (RV790 XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs959 million
Shaders896vs800
Compute Units14vs10
Core clock1090 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4890
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs975 MHz
3900 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 4890
TDP75 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs2 Apr 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    125.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4890
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better