Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon HD 3870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4890 vs Radeon HD 3870 X2
Radeon HD 4890
1552
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
Radeon HD 4890
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
RV790
R680
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
January 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,360.0 gflops
2x 528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
959 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
320
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
165 Watt
Texture fill rate
34.00
13.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3900 MHz
1802 MHz
Memory bandwidth
124.8 GB/s
57.66 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A