AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 86 Watt vs 195 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	86 Watt vs 195 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 700 MHz
5.4x more texture fill rate: 135.4 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 1536 vs 720
3.2x better floating-point performance: 3,250 gflops vs 1,008 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4.5x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Core clock speed	1006 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	135.4 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 720
Floating-point performance	3,250 gflops vs 1,008 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Kepler
Code name	Juniper	GK104
Launch date	19 April 2013	3 April 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$599
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	1006 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,008 gflops	3,250 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	720	1536
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	135.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	86 Watt	195 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,540 million
Boost clock speed		1058 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	21.34 GB / s	192.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5