Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7770
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2012
December 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
64
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
40.00
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A