ATI Radeon HD 5670 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5670 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 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 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 480 MHz
  • 25x more pipelines: 400 vs 2x 8
  • 16.1x better floating-point performance: 620.0 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 803 vs 67
  • 3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 288 vs 89
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 January 2010 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 480 MHz
Pipelines 400 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance 620.0 gflops vs 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 803 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 288 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

  • Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.5 GTexel / s
  • Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 64 Watt
Texture fill rate 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 15.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 64 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5670
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
803
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
288
89
Name ATI Radeon HD 5670 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
PassMark - G3D Mark 803 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 288 89
Geekbench - OpenCL 602
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1129
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2113
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Redwood G98
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 14 January 2010 11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $119 $163.14
Place in performance rating 1420 1423
Type Desktop Workstation
Price now $168
Value for money (0-100) 0.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 775 MHz
Core clock speed 775 MHz 480 MHz
Floating-point performance 620.0 gflops 2x 19.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 400 2x 8
Stream Processors 400
Texture fill rate 15.5 GTexel / s 2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 64 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 627 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)