Radeon 890M vs HD 7590M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated249
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameThamesStrix Point
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 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 cores4801024
Core clock speed600 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors716 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate14.40185.6
Floating-point processing power0.576 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2464
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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7590M and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7590M is a notebook card while Radeon 890M is a desktop one.


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