ATI Radeon HD 5670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5670 and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 805 vs 102
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 288 vs 168
  • 6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2113 vs 329
  • 6.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2113 vs 329
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 January 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 805 vs 102
PassMark - G2D Mark 288 vs 168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2113 vs 329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2113 vs 329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 64 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 64 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5670
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
805
102
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
288
168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2113
329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2113
329
Name ATI Radeon HD 5670 NVIDIA GeForce 8300
PassMark - G3D Mark 805 102
PassMark - G2D Mark 288 168
Geekbench - OpenCL 694
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 184.557
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.319
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.627
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 27.325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1129
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2113 329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1129
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2113 329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Redwood C78
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 14 January 2010 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $119
Place in performance rating 1417 1420
Type Desktop Desktop
Price now $22.68
Value for money (0-100) 5.26

Technical info

Boost clock speed 775 MHz
Core clock speed 775 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 400
Stream Processors 400
Texture fill rate 15.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 64 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 627 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

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

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)