GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 ranking701not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.45no data
Power efficiency1.41no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV790AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)20 August 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 $599

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 cores8005888
Core clock speed850 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors959 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate34.00455.4
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs40184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 x16
Length241 mm240 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed975 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.8 GB/s480.0 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-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2009 20 August 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 200 Watt

ATI HD 4890 has 5.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 GDDR6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.


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