Radeon 890M vs ATI Mobility X1800XT

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
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameM58, R520Strix Point
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2006 (18 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 cores241024
Core clock speed8 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz2900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data185.6
Floating-point processing powerno data5.939 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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 sizelargemedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed650 MHzSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.


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