Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 670

older Released November, 2009

PowerColor Radeon HD 5870

875 MHz
1 GB GDDR5

6.2 Out of 10

Desktop157 MHz300 MHz0.95 VBlu-Ray Playback400 MHz900 MHz1.03 V3D Load875 MHz1225 MHz1.18 V AMD includes their own overclocking utility with Catalyst Control Center.

by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2010)

older Released May, 2012

Nvidia GeForce GTX 670

915 MHz
2 GB GDDR5

6.4 Out of 10

In terms of gaming resolutions the card can easily handle all games at maximum settings at 1920x1200.

by techPowerUp! (May, 2012)

	Gaming

Radeon HD 5870 n.d. GeForce GTX 670 6.7 GeForce GTX 760 6.5
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

	Graphics

Radeon HD 5870 6.0 GeForce GTX 670 6.4 GeForce GTX 760 n.d.
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

	Computing

Radeon HD 5870 6.0 GeForce GTX 670 6.3 GeForce GTX 760 n.d.
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

	Performance per Watt

Radeon HD 5870 6.5 GeForce GTX 670 7.1 GeForce GTX 760 7.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Value

Radeon HD 5870 n.d. GeForce GTX 670 5.1 GeForce GTX 760 5.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Noise and Power

Radeon HD 5870 7.0 GeForce GTX 670 7.4 GeForce GTX 760 8.6
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more

6.4	Overall Score

Radeon HD 5870 6.2 GeForce GTX 670 6.4 GeForce GTX 760 6.5

Winner
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670

GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 based on its benchmarks, compute performance and noise and power.

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Reasons to consider the
PowerColor Radeon HD 5870

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Slightly more shading units

1,600

1,344

256 more shading units

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 670

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Much better 3DMark06 score

29,150

14,380

More than 2x better 3DMark06 score

Better PassMark score

5,374

2,606

More than 2x better PassMark score

Better 3DMark vantage graphics score

31,610

20,160

More than 55% better 3DMark vantage graphics score

Better 3DMark 11 graphics score

9,600

4,390

Around 2.2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score

More memory

2,048 MB

1,024 MB

2x more memory

Higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

160 GB/s

More than 20% higher memory bandwidth

Higher effective memory clock speed

6,008 MHz

5,000 MHz

More than 20% higher effective memory clock speed

Better fire strike factor score

56.13

31.94

More than 75% better fire strike factor score

Higher texture rate

102.5 GTexel/s

70 GTexel/s

More than 45% higher texture rate

More texture mapping units

112

32 more texture mapping units

Higher memory clock speed

1,502 MHz

1,250 MHz

More than 20% higher memory clock speed

Better PassMark direct compute score

2,578

1,401

Around 85% better PassMark direct compute score

Lower TDP

170W

188W

Around 10% lower TDP

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 5870

128.65 mHash/s

GeForce GTX 670

97.1 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 5870

17.34 mPixels/s

GeForce GTX 670

41.23 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 5870

981.6 frames/s

GeForce GTX 670

1,203.78 frames/s

T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 5870

3,354.97

GeForce GTX 670

4,201.57

Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 5870

3,712.06

GeForce GTX 670

4,646.58

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon HD 5870

31.94

GeForce GTX 670

56.13

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon HD 5870

198.8

GeForce GTX 670

357.04

Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon HD 5870

18.49

GeForce GTX 670

20.91

Radeon HD 5870		vs	GeForce GTX 670

	8.8 read review		9.7 read review	While overclocking is probably not what most system builders of small form-factor systems have in mind, I can happily report that overclocking works just as well as on any other "big" GTX 670. GeForce GTX 670