Radeon HD 6770 vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Radeon HD 6770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6770
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8770 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6770Radeon HD 8770 OEM
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders800vs896
Compute Units10vs14
Core clock850 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6770Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6770Radeon HD 8770 OEM
TDP108 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date21 Jan 2011vs2 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6770
    13.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6770
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    58.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6770
    76.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better