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Radeon HD 4890 1GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The Radeon HD 4890 1GB features a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 975 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 190 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 124800 MB/sec
Difference: 54400 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (approximately 56%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22400 (56%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15200 (95%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4890 1GB Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 2, 2009 June 2015
Code Name RV790 XT Trinidad
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 3900 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 124800 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40000 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 1024
Texture Mapping Units 40 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 959 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4890 1GB

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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