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Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon HD 7770
Intro
The Radeon HD 6870 has a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1050 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1120 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7770, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.
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 |
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3180 points |
| Radeon HD 6870 |
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2870 points |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 7770 |
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80 Watts |
| Radeon HD 6870 |
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151 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6870 will be 87% quicker than the Radeon HD 7770 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6870 |
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134400 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 7770 |
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72000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6870 should be quite a bit (about 26%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)| Radeon HD 6870 |
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50400 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 7770 |
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40000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 6870 will be much (more or less 80%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 7770, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)| Radeon HD 6870 |
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28800 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 7770 |
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16000 Mpixels/sec |
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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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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | Radeon HD 6870 | Radeon HD 7770 |
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| 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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
Radeon HD 6870Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 7770Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
3 Responses to “Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon HD 7770”Are you using pice 2 or pcie 3
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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.
[...] 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%) [...]