Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 9000) vs HD 8990 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	RDNA 3+
GPU code name	Malta	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	24 April 2013 (11 years ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

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 cores	2048 ×2	128
Core clock speed	950 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	128.0 ×2	no data
Floating-point processing power	4.096 TFLOPS ×2	no data
ROPs	32 ×2	no data
TMUs	128 ×2	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	307 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB ×2	no data
Memory bus width	384 Bit ×2	no data
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s ×2	no 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

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API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12_2
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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