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Radeon HD 4670 1GB vs Radeon HD 5670

Intro

The Radeon HD 4670 1GB features a clock speed of 750 MHz and a GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory speed of 1100 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 320(64x5) SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5670, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 775 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5670 61 Watts
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 70 Watts
Difference: 9 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5670 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 4670 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5670 64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 35200 MB/sec
Difference: 28800 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4670 1GB should be a lot (approximately 55%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)

Radeon HD 4670 1GB 24000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 15500 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8500 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5670 is a bit (about 3%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5670 6200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 6000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 200 (3%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4670 1GB Radeon HD 5670
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Sep 10, 2008 January 14, 2010
Code Name RV730 XT Redwood XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts 61 watts
Bandwidth 35200 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24000 Mtexels/sec 15500 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6000 Mpixels/sec 6200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 20
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 514 million 627 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16, AGP 8x PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “Radeon HD 4670 1GB vs Radeon HD 5670”
HUNG says:

IF WE ARE TALKING = EFFICIENCY CLOCK FOR CLOCK and the 4670 had gddr5 like the 5670 i would say the 4670 would be the best as two stand alone cards on 55 and 40nm 5670 gets the nod

but if at the same nm and clock and same ram id take the 4670 over the 5670

that texture fillrate is insane really and at 800mhz with high bandwidth ram it could be a amazing gpu

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