Radeon HD 3650 vs Radeon HD 5670

Radeon HD 3650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3650
Radeon HD 5670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2010
Radeon HD 5670

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3650

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5670

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3650Radeon HD 5670
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsRedwood (Redwood XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors378 millionvs627 million
Shaders120vs400
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock725 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3650Radeon HD 5670
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3650Radeon HD 5670
TDP65 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date20 Jan 2008vs14 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650
    2.90 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    6.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650
    5.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    15.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3650
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3650
    174.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5670
    620.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better