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GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon HD 5670

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTX comes with a GPU core speed of 575 MHz, and the 768 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5670, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 775 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5670 61 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTX 155 Watts
Difference: 94 Watts (154%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8800 GTX, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 5670 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5670 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (35%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTX should be much (approximately 137%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 36800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 15500 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21300 (137%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTX is superior to the Radeon HD 5670, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 13800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 6200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7600 (123%)

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 8800 GTX Radeon HD 5670
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Nov 2006 January 14, 2010
Code Name G80 Redwood XT
Memory 768 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 155 watts 61 watts
Bandwidth 86400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36800 Mtexels/sec 15500 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13800 Mpixels/sec 6200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 20
Render Output Units 24 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 40 nm
Transistors 681 million 627 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTX

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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.

Comments

3 Responses to “GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon HD 5670”
Wolfos says:

Seriously, this is bullshit. The HD5670 can't even be compared to the 8800GTX, it's SO MUCH FASTER!
The 8800GTX is from 2006 and the HD5670 from 2010.

exe says:

You do not know what you are saying????

exactly says:

Wolfos is total noob 🙂

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