Radeon HD 4650 AGP vs Radeon HD 5670

Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Radeon HD 5670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2010
Radeon HD 5670
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4650 AGPRadeon HD 5670
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 PRO)vsRedwood (Redwood XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs627 million
Shaders320vs400
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4650 AGPRadeon HD 5670
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4650 AGPRadeon HD 5670
TDP48 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs14 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    4.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    6.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    15.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5670
    620.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better