Radeon RX 5770 vs ATI 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)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameRV790Navi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)no data
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 cores800no data
Core clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors959 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate34.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no data

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 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed975 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.8 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 225 Watt

ATI HD 4890 has 18.4% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4890 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Radeon HD 4890
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