Radeon HD 4670 vs Radeon HD 4580

Radeon HD 4670
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4670
Radeon HD 4580
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Nov 2011
Radeon HD 4580

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4670

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 4580

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 4580
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsRV635 (RV635 PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs135 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs378 million
Shaders320vs120
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock750 MHzvs796 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 4580
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs693 MHz
1386 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4670Radeon HD 4580
TDP59 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs20 Nov 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    6.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    3.18 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    6.37 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4670
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    22.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4670
    480.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4580
    191.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better