ATI Radeon HD 5670 vs GeForce 7900 GTO

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated868
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.20
Power efficiencyno data2.34
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG71Redwood
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2006 (18 years ago)14 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$119

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data400
Core clock speed650 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistors278 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)81 Watt64 Watt
Texture fill rate15.6015.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.62 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2420

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/s64 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2006 14 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 81 Watt 64 Watt

ATI HD 5670 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 26.6% lower power consumption.

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