Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 770
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition |
| 124 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 770 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 XT) | vs | GK104 (GK104-425-A2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 666 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 777 MHz | vs | 1046 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR4 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1126 MHz
2252 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 770 | |
|---|
| TDP | 106 watts | vs | 230 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Jun 2008 | vs | 30 May 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better