Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition vs Radeon HD 8450 OEM

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jul 2010
Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8450 OEM

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5670 640SP Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionRadeon HD 8450 OEM
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper LE)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO-L)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs370 million
Shaders640vs160
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock750 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionRadeon HD 8450 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionRadeon HD 8450 OEM
TDP64 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date18 Jul 2010vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    6.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    10.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    960.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better