
Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7770 vs GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 7770
2235
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon HD 7770
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2012
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
48
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
40.00
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
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