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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

The Geforce GTX 670 has a clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1344 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5830, which comes with a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1120(224x5) SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670 170 Watts
Radeon HD 5830 175 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 670 should be much faster than the Radeon HD 5830 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670 192000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5830 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 64000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is a lot (about 129%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5830. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5830 44800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 57680 (129%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5830 12800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16480 (129%)

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 Geforce GTX 670 Radeon HD 5830
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2012 February 25, 2010
Code Name GK104 Cypress LE
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 192000 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 44800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 1120(224x5)
Texture Mapping Units 112 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3540 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of 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 better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 670

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Radeon HD 5830

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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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