Radeon HD 4855 vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Radeon HD 4855
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2010
Radeon HD 4855
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4855

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8770 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8770 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4855Radeon HD 8770 OEM
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock575 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4855Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4855Radeon HD 8770 OEM
TDP110 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2010vs2 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4855
    9.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4855
    18.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    58.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4855
    115.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4855
    736.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better