Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4890 vs Radeon HD 3870
Radeon HD 4890
1552
Radeon HD 3870
572
Radeon HD 4890
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
RV790
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,360.0 gflops
497.3 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
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
34.00
12.43
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
124.8 GB/s
72.06 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