Radeon 890M vs ATI HD 3830

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated251
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameRV670Strix Point
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 2008 (16 years ago)July 2024 (recently)

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 cores3201024
Core clock speed668 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors666 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate10.69185.6
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1664
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed828 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth26.5 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has a 1275% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3830 and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.


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