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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB features a GPU core clock speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB 108 Watts
Difference: 3 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 67200 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be a little bit (approximately 7%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2400 (7%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be a lot (about 50%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (50%)

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 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Oct 2007 January 2011
Code Name G92 Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 800
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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Radeon HD 6770 1GB

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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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