Radeon HD 5670 vs Radeon R7 265

Radeon HD 5670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2010
Radeon HD 5670
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5670
    100%
  • Radeon R7 265
    466%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5670

86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 265

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 366% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 265

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 265

The Radeon R7 265 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5670Radeon R7 265
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders400vs1024
Compute Units5vs16
Core clock775 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs20vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5670Radeon R7 265
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5670Radeon R7 265
TDP64 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date14 Jan 2010vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670
    15.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5670
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5670
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5670
    1480
  • Radeon R7 265
    6900

Points (higher is better)