Radeon HD 7770 and NV38 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7770

NV38

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

NV38

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2012

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

1000 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

135 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

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Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

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Texture fill rate

40.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

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

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Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0a

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (full) Shader Model5.1-

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A