AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580X and AMD Radeon HD 7670A 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 13400x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 2304 vs 480
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 885 vs 702
  • 7.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7798 vs 1050
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 5 January 2012
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 vs 702
PassMark - G3D Mark 7798 vs 1050

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670A

  • 92.9x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 185 Watt
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7670A

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
885
702
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7798
1050
Name AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon HD 7670A
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294
PassMark - G2D Mark 885 702
PassMark - G3D Mark 7798 1050
Geekbench - OpenCL 41822

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580X AMD Radeon HD 7670A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Polaris 20 Turks
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 5 January 2012
Place in performance rating 169 167
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2304 480
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 14.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
VR Ready