ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

About GPU

The ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition is a solid mid-range GPU that delivers impressive performance for its price point. With a memory size of 512MB and GDDR5 memory type, it offers smooth and efficient gaming and multimedia experiences. The 1000MHz memory clock ensures fast and responsive graphics rendering, while the 640 shading units and 256KB L2 cache help to handle complex visual tasks with ease. The 64W TDP is fairly low, meaning this GPU is energy efficient and won't drastically increase your electricity bill. Despite its lower power consumption, the theoretical performance of 0.96 TFLOPS is quite impressive, allowing for smooth gameplay and seamless multitasking. In terms of gaming, the ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition offers good performance for older and less demanding titles, as well as some modern games at lower settings. It may struggle with more graphically intense games, but for casual gamers or those on a budget, it's a great option. Overall, the ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition is a reliable GPU for mid-range desktop systems. It offers a good balance of performance, power efficiency, and affordability. Whether you're a casual gamer or simply need a GPU for multimedia and productivity tasks, this graphics card is worth considering.

Basic

Label Name
ATI
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
July 2010
Model Name
Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
Generation
Evergreen
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Transistors
1,040 million
Compute Units
8
TMUs
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Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
32
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Architecture
TeraScale 2

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
512MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
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The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
Memory Clock
1000MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
64.00 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
6.000 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
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Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
24.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
0.941 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
640
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256KB
TDP
64W
Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
N/A
OpenCL Version
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
Power Connectors
None
Shader Model
5.0
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
8
Suggested PSU
250W

Benchmarks

FP32 (float)
Score
0.941 TFLOPS

Compared to Other GPU

FP32 (float) / TFLOPS
1.072 +13.9%
1.037 +10.2%
1.007 +7%