AMD Radeon HD 6770 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • 4.5x more texture fill rate: 34.0 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
  • 40x more pipelines: 800 vs 20
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1255 vs 176
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 317 vs 254
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 916
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 916
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 January 2011 vs 18 April 2006
Boost clock speed 900 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate 34.0 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 800 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1255 vs 176
PassMark - G2D Mark 317 vs 254
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 916

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

  • 5.4x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 108 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 108 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6770
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1255
176
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
317
254
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
916
Name AMD Radeon HD 6770 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 1255 176
PassMark - G2D Mark 317 254
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 916
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2279
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 916
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6770 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Juniper G71
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 21 January 2011 18 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Place in performance rating 1117 1119
Price now $76.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 27.17

Technical info

Boost clock speed 900 MHz 375 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 800 20
Texture fill rate 34.0 GTexel / s 7.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 108 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 278 million
Core clock speed 375 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire