Radeon HD 4670 vs GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 4670
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4670
GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4670

66 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4670GeForce 9800 GT
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsG92 (G92-270-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs754 million
Shaders320vs112
Compute Units4vs7
Core clock750 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4670GeForce 9800 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4670GeForce 9800 GT
TDP59 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs21 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    6.00 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4670
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4670
    480.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better