Radeon RX 5900 XT vs ATI HD 4290 IGP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRS880Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 March 2010 (14 years ago)no data (2024 years 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 cores404352
Core clock speed498 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1735 MHz
Number of transistors181 million21,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate1.992471.9
Floating-point processing power0.03984 TFLOPS15.1 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs4272

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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared14000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data672.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.0no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm

RX 5900 XT has a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

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ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
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