AMD Radeon HD 6770 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6770

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
34x more texture fill rate: 34.0 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 400 MHz
157.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1262 vs 8
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 318 vs 154

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 January 2011 vs 6 March 2003
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1262 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	318 vs 154

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6770
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

318

154

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6770	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	1262	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	318	154
Geekbench - OpenCL	3802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	9.69
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	615.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	26.748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	115.157
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2279
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2279
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6770	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Juniper	NV34 A2
Design	AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date	21 January 2011	6 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	$69.99
Place in performance rating	1117	1119
Price now	$76.99	$69.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	27.17	0.12
Technical info
Boost clock speed	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	45 million
Core clock speed		250 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	11	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire