Arc Pro A40 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking698not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.39no data
Power efficiency1.42no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRV790DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8001024
Core clock speed850 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors959 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate34.00108.8
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4064
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed975 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.8 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2009 8 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 50 Watt

Arc Pro A40 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 816.7% more advanced lithography process, and 280% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4890 and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4890 is a desktop card while Arc Pro A40 is a workstation one.


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