Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 5490 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon HD 5490
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RV770
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
750 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
80
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
5.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A