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GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 5670

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB features a GPU core speed of 600 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 112 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5670, which comes with a clock speed of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 400(80x5) SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5670 61 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 105 Watts
Difference: 44 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5670 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5670 64000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB will be quite a bit (about 117%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 15500 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18100 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB should be quite a bit (more or less 55%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 5670, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 6200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3400 (55%)

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 GT 1GB Radeon HD 5670
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 January 14, 2010
Code Name G92 Redwood XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 61 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 15500 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 6200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 627 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 1GB

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Radeon HD 5670

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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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