GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 295
    106%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 295

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

209 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 295 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 295

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 295

The GeForce GTX 295 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGT200B (G200-400-B3)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders240vs640
Compute Units10vs10
Core clock576 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs28vs16
TMUs80vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 295Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP289 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2009vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 295
    4440
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170

Points (higher is better)