ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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 ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • Around 90% higher pipelines: 640 vs 336
  • Around 6% better floating-point performance: 960.0 gflops vs 907.2 gflops
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 64 Watt vs 160 Watt
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Core clock speed 750 MHz vs 675 MHz
Pipelines 640 vs 336
Floating-point performance 960.0 gflops vs 907.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 64 Watt vs 160 Watt
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

  • Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 37.8 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 512 MB
Texture fill rate 37.8 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 768 MB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Name ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark 2264
PassMark - G2D Mark 384
Geekbench - OpenCL 7745
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 21.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 617.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.222
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 40.61
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Juniper GF104
Launch date 18 July 2010 12 July 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $119 $229
Place in performance rating not rated 943
Type Desktop Desktop
Price now $89.99
Value for money (0-100) 34.71

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 960.0 gflops 907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 640 336
Texture fill rate 24 GTexel / s 37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 64 Watt 160 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI Internal
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 8.25"(210 mm) (21 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin & 6-pin
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI