GeForce 9800 GTX vs Radeon HD 6670

GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6670
    122%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6670

74 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 22% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6670

The Radeon HD 6670 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXRadeon HD 6670
GPU NameG92 (G92-420-A2)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs716 million
Shaders128vs480
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock675 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXRadeon HD 6670
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTXRadeon HD 6670
TDP140 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date28 Mar 2008vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    1600
  • Radeon HD 6670
    1960

Points (higher is better)