Radeon 890M vs GeForce 505 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated253
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameGT216Strix Point
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 February 2013 (11 years ago)15 July 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores241024
Core clock speed615 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors486 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate7.380185.6
Floating-point processing power0.04949 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1264
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 February 2013 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 11 years, a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 505 OEM and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 505 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 890M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM
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