ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT vs ATI HD 5670

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking869not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.20no data
Power efficiency2.26no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameRedwoodM58, R520
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 March 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$119 no data

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 cores40024
Core clock speed775 MHz8 MHz
Boost clock speedno data550 MHz
Number of transistors627 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Wattno data
Texture fill rate15.50no data
Floating-point processing power0.62 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz650 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)GDDR3
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2010 1 March 2006
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm

ATI HD 5670 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5670 and Mobility Radeon X1800XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5670 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook one.


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