Over 20 years of PC history
| Medion Radeon 9600 TX | Asus Radeon HD 3870 | Asus Radeon HD 4830 | Asus Radeon HD 4890 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU type | R300 | RV670 | RV770 | RV790 |
| Manufacturing process | 150 nm | 55 nm | 55 nm | 55 nm |
| Transistors | 107 million | 666 million | 956 million | 959 million |
| Die size | 218 mm2 | 192 mm2 | 256 mm2 | 282 mm2 |
| ROPs | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | 16 | 32 | 40 |
| PS / VS | Unified Shaders | 8 / 4 | 0 | 0 / 0 | 320 | 0 / 0 | 640 | 0 / 0 | 800 |
| GPU clock | 300 MHz | 775 MHz | 575 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Pixel / texel fillrate | 2 400 MP/s ; 2 400 MT/s | 12 400 MP/s ; 12 400 MT/s | 9 200 MP/s ; 18 400 MT/s | 13 600 MP/s ; 34 000 MT/s |
| SP / DP gigaflops | - ; - | 497 ; 99 | 736 ; 147 | 1 360 ; 272 |
| DirectX / OpenGL | 9 ; 2.0 | 10.1 ; 3.3 | 10.1 ; 3.3 | 10.1 ; 3.3 |
| Compute ver. / OpenCL | - ; - | - ; - | - ; 1.0 | - ; 1.0 |
| Memory | 128 MB DDR | 512 MB GDDR4 | 512 MB GDDR3 | 1 024 MB GDDR5 |
| Memory | 540 MHz ; 128 bit | 2 250 MHz ; 256 bit | 1 800 MHz ; 256 bit | 3 900 MHz ; 256 bit |
| Bandwith | 8 640 MB/s | 72 000 MB/s | 57 600 MB/s | 124 800 MB/s |
| Interface | AGP 8x [2 133 MB/s] | PCI-E 2.0 x16 [8 192 MB/s] | PCI-E 2.0 x16 [8 192 MB/s] | PCI-E 2.0 x16 [8 192 MB/s] |
| TDP | - | 106 W | 95 W | 190 W |
| Analog I/O ports | 2 × VGA, 1 × Composite out, 1 × S-Video out | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I |
| Digital I/O ports | - | 2 × DVI-I | 2 × DVI-I | 2 × DVI-I |
| Independent screens | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Introduce date | 2002 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |