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Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The Radeon HD 6870 has a GPU core speed of 900 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1050 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1120 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7770, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon HD 7770 3180 points
Radeon HD 6870 2870 points
Difference: 310 (11%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770 80 Watts
Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
Difference: 71 Watts (89%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6870 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon HD 7770 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 62400 (87%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 should be much (about 26%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10400 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 should be much (approximately 80%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7770, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12800 (80%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6870 Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2010 February 2012
Code Name Barts XT Cape Verde XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4200 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 151 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 134400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50400 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 28800 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1120 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1700 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6870

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Comments

3 Responses to “Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon HD 7770”
james says:

Are you using pice 2 or pcie 3

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Aaron says:

It would have to be PCI-e 2.0 or 2.1 because the 6970 doesn't support PCI-e 3.0, and the theoretical benchmarks are not dependent on PCI-e speed. Anyway, you should get the 6870 instead of the 7770, the 68xx series has the BEST price to performance ratio of ANY AMD/ATI radeon HD graphics card.

[DOMANDA] Quale produttore per 550ti (versioni oc) - Pagina 2 says:

[...] HD 6870 will be a lot (approximately 26%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec Difference: 10400 (26%) [...]

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