Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon HD 4890

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 4890
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2009
Radeon HD 4890

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

70 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4890
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsRV790 (RV790 XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs959 million
Shaders2048vs800
Compute Units32vs10
Core clock926 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4890
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs975 MHz
3900 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570Radeon HD 4890
TDP120 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs2 Apr 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    125.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4890
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better