Radeon HD 4670 vs Radeon HD 7790

Radeon HD 4670
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4670
Radeon HD 7790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7790

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4670

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7790

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 7790
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders320vs896
Compute Units4vs14
Core clock750 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 7790
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 7790
TDP59 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs22 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    6.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    56.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4670
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4670
    480.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7790
    1792.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better