AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition and AMD Radeon HD 8730A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 25.2 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Around 88% higher pipelines: 720 vs 384
Around 88% better floating-point performance: 1,008 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	720 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,008 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8730A

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition	AMD Radeon HD 8730A
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	GCN 1.0
Code name	Juniper	Mars
Launch date	19 April 2013	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,008 gflops	537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	720	384
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	16.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	86 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		700 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	170 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	21.34 GB / s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3