Radeon HD 5670 vs GeForce GT 220

Radeon HD 5670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2010
Radeon HD 5670
GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5670

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon HD 5670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5670GeForce GT 220
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsG94 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs65 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs505 million
Shaders400vs48
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock775 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs20vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5670GeForce GT 220
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5670GeForce GT 220
TDP64 wattsvs58 watts
Release Date14 Jan 2010vs26 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670
    6.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670
    15.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5670
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5670
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better