ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 475 MHz
12.6x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 68% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 950 MHz

Launch date	17 July 2007 vs 17 February 2004
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 950 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 57 Watt vs 59 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	57 Watt vs 59 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RV730	NV38 A1
Launch date	17 July 2007	17 February 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	475 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	59 Watt	57 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	135 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	193 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3