ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP vs ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP and ATI Radeon 9800 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 97% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 380 MHz
7.9x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 680 MHz

Launch date	17 July 2007 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 380 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 680 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 59 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 59 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark		66
PassMark - G2D Mark		175

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 9
Code name	RV730	R360
Launch date	17 July 2007	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	1011
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	380 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	3.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	59 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Length	193 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	21.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	680 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR