ATI Radeon X1900 XT vs ATI HD 4670

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1110not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency1.14no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRV730R580
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 September 2008 (16 years ago)24 January 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$67 $299

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 cores320no data
Core clock speed750 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors514 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)59 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0010.00
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPSno data
ROPs816
TMUs3216

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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length193 mm242 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz725 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s46.4 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-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2008 24 January 2006
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 59 Watt 100 Watt

ATI HD 4670 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 63.6% more advanced lithography process, and 69.5% lower power consumption.

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