Radeon 890M vs GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated259
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameAD106Strix Point
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)July 2024 (recently)

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 cores46081024
Core clock speed735 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1230 MHz2900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate177.1185.6
Floating-point processing power11.34 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs14464
Tensor Cores144no data
Ray Tracing Cores3616

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q is a notebook card while Radeon 890M is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon 890M
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