Radeon R9 290 and Radeon HD 4870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon HD 4870
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon HD 4870
1411
Radeon R9 290
Radeon HD 4870
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Hawaii
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
947 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
800
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
30.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A