AMD Radeon HD 6770M vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770M and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6770M

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 300 MHz
14.5x more texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 450 MHz
241x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 964 vs 4
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 176

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	964 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6770M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

964

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

176

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark	964	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	176
Geekbench - OpenCL	8338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	234.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.475
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	33.71
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Celsius
Code name	Whistler	NV17 A3
Launch date	4 January 2011	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	986	984
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.0
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0