
Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GT 230M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4890 vs GeForce GT 230M
Radeon HD 4890
1552
GeForce GT 230M
218
Radeon HD 4890
GeForce GT 230M
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
RV790
N10P-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2009
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
1,360.0 gflops
105.6 gflops
Gigaflops
-
158
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
959 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
48
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
34.00
8.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3900 MHz
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
124.8 GB/s
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
HDA
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0