Radeon HD 4890 Overview

Radeon HD 4890
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4890

Core Configuration

GPU RV790
Architecture ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 800 : 40 : 16
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1360.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 975 MHz
3900 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 125.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon HD 5970
    100%
  • Radeon HD 5870
    65%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    64%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    61%
  • Radeon HD 6950
    53%
  • GeForce GTX 590
    53%
  • Radeon HD 5850
    50%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    48%
  • Radeon HD 6930
    45%
  • Radeon HD 5830
    42%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    37%
  • Radeon HD 6850
    35%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    33%
  • Radeon HD 6770
    32%
  • Radeon HD 5770
    32%
  • Radeon HD 4890
    32%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    32%
  • Radeon HD 6790
    32%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    31%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30%
  • Radeon HD 4870
    28%
  • GeForce GTX 560
    26%
  • GeForce GTX 470
    26%
  • GeForce GTX 295
    25%
  • Radeon HD 6750
    24%
  • Radeon HD 5750
    24%
  • Radeon HD 4850
    23%
  • Radeon HD 4730
    22%
  • Radeon HD 4770
    22%
  • Radeon HD 4750
    22%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 4890 is a graphics card released by AMD on 2 Apr 2009. The graphics card houses the RV790 die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 959 million transistors on a 55 nm, 282 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 4890 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 4890Radeon HD 5970
Radeon HD 4890Radeon HD 5970
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Shader units8001600
ROPs1632
Graphics processorRV790Hemlock
Process size55 nm40 nm
Memory1024 Mb GDDR5 (975 MHz
3900 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit256 bit x2
Memory bandwidth125.00 Gb/s256.00 Gb/s
Release date2 Apr 200918 Nov 2009