Radeon HD 5670 vs Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 5670 and Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 5670 stacks up against Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri, check out specs charts below.
Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5670 Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 5670 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri - with GCN.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5670 is 55 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri.
  • Radeon HD 5670 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 7−8
ultra / 1080p 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 18−20
medium / 1080p 0−1 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1800% more, than Radeon HD 5670.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5670 Radeon R7 512 Cores Kaveri
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
Code name Redwood Kaveri Spectre
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 14 January 2010 14 January 2014
Pipelines 400 512
Core clock speed 775 MHz 720 MHz
Transistor count 627 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 15.50
Floating-point performance 620.0 gflops
Length 168 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.2
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
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