AMD Radeon HD 7670M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7670M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 480 vs 128
  • Around 36% better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 422.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 91 vs 44
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 3272
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 3272
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 February 2012 vs 14 August 2008
Pipelines 480 vs 128
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 91 vs 44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 vs 3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 vs 3272

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 3x more texture fill rate: 43.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 581 vs 473
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 675 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 581 vs 473

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
473
581
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
91
44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
3272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
3272
Name AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
PassMark - G3D Mark 473 581
PassMark - G2D Mark 91 44
Geekbench - OpenCL 1402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.901
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 3272
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 3272
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G92
Launch date 17 February 2012 14 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $629.99
Place in performance rating 1404 1406
Price now $629.99
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 1.48

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 128
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s 43.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type DDR3, (GDDR5) GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
PowerMizer 8.0