XGI Volari V5 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 ranking694not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.39no data
Power efficiency1.43no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code nameRV790XG41
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)15 September 2003 (21 year 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 cores800no data
Core clock speed850 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistors959 million90 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Wattno data
Texture fill rate34.001.300
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs404

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 x16AGP 8x
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed975 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.8 GB/s14.4 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.4
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2009 15 September 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 4890 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

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