Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4850

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

Terascale 1 (2008−2010)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

RV770

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

March 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1420 MHz

Core clock speed

625 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,000.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.00

204.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

993 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

63.55 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3