Radeon HD 4890 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4890 |
| 60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4890 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV790 (RV790 XT) | vs | GM200 (GM200-310-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 282 mm² | vs | 601 mm² |
| Transistors | 959 million | vs | 8,000 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 22 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 96 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4890 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 975 MHz
3900 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4890 | | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | |
|---|
| TDP | 190 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Apr 2009 | vs | 2 Jun 2015 |
Radeon HD 4890
13.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
96.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4890
34.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
176.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4890
125.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
337.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4890
1360.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5632.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better