Radeon HD 4890 vs Radeon R7 265X OEM

Radeon HD 4890
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4890
Radeon R7 265X OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2014
Radeon R7 265X OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4890

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 265X OEM

40 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 ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 265X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 265X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4890Radeon R7 265X OEM
GPU NameRV790 (RV790 XT)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size282 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors959 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders800vs1280
Compute Units10vs20
Core clock850 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4890Radeon R7 265X OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed975 MHz
3900 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4890Radeon R7 265X OEM
TDP190 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2009vs12 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4890
    13.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4890
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4890
    125.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4890
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better