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.

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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		2261
PassMark - G2D Mark		385
Geekbench - OpenCL		7759
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