Radeon HD 7770 and Matrox G550 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7770

Matrox G550

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

G500 (2001−2005)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

Condor

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2012

January 2001

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

125 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

10 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

40.00

0.25

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

332 MBps

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

2.656 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A