Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon HD 6670

Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4850
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6670
    103%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6670

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4850 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4850Radeon HD 6670
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs716 million
Shaders800vs480
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock625 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4850Radeon HD 6670
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed993 MHz
1986 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4850Radeon HD 6670
TDP110 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1890
  • Radeon HD 6670
    1960

Points (higher is better)