Radeon HD 3830 vs Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

Radeon HD 3830
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2008
Radeon HD 3830
Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3830

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3830Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsJuniper (Juniper PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs720
Compute Units4vs9
Core clock668 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs16vs36

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3830Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3830Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
TDP75 wattsvs86 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2008vs19 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3830
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3830
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
    25.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3830
    26.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
    21.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3830
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
    1008.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better