Radeon 890M vs ATI HD 5770 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated253
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameJuniperStrix Point
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 July 2010 (14 years ago)15 July 2024 (less than a year 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 cores8001024
Core clock speed850 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate34.00185.6
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length208 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1195 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth76.48 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 July 2010 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 14 years, a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 620% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Radeon 890M is a notebook one.


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