Radeon HD 5470 vs GeForce GT 320 OEM

Radeon HD 5470
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 5470
GeForce GT 320 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Feb 2010
GeForce GT 320 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5470

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 320 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GT 320 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 320 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5470GeForce GT 320 OEM
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsGT215 (GT215-301-A3)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs144 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs727 million
Shaders80vs72
Compute Units2vs3
Core clock650 MHzvs540 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5470GeForce GT 320 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs790 MHz
1580 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5470GeForce GT 320 OEM
TDP19 wattsvs43 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2012vs2 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    4.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5470
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    25.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5470
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 320 OEM
    187.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better