Radeon HD 4520 vs Radeon HD 7790
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4520 |
| 60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7790 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV710 () | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 73 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 242 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4520 | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| TDP | 25 watts | vs | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Dec 2009 | vs | 22 Mar 2013 |
Radeon HD 4520
2.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 7790
16.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4520
4.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 7790
56.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4520
6.40 GB/s
Radeon HD 7790
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4520
96.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7790
1792.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better