Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7770
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
N10E-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2012
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
40.00
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Power management
-
8.0