ATI Radeon HD 4890 videocard review

ATI Radeon HD 4890

Radeon HD 4890 videocard released by ATI; release date: 2 April 2009. At the time of release, the videocard cost $249. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale microarchitecture codenamed RV790.

Core clock speed - 850 MHz. Texture fill rate - 34.0 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 800. Floating-point performance - 1,360.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 55 nm. Transistors count - 959 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 190 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 3900 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 124.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38712
1508
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1305
75
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3348 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3348.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 1508
PassMark - G2D Mark 75
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3348 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3348.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale
Code name RV790
Launch date 2 April 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $249
Place in performance rating 1242
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm
Pipelines 800
Texture fill rate 34.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 190 Watt
Transistor count 959 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 124.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3900 MHz
Memory type GDDR5