Radeon HD 6770 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6770 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 63% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
The Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6770 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Juniper (Juniper XT) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 166 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6770 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6770 | | Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 108 watts | vs | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Jan 2011 | vs | 15 Feb 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)