AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4730 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 7770 GHz Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 40 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% better floating-point performance: 1,280 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 95% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 14630 vs 7497
  • Around 95% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 14630 vs 7497
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 February 2012 vs 8 June 2009
Texture fill rate 40 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 1,280 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 14630 vs 7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 14630 vs 7497

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 125 Watt
  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14630
7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14630
7497
Name AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition ATI Radeon HD 4730
PassMark - G3D Mark 2170
PassMark - G2D Mark 461
Geekbench - OpenCL 14263
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 506.712
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.01
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 153.657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 14630 7497
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 14630 7497
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 711

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition ATI Radeon HD 4730

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Cape Verde RV770
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 15 February 2012 8 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $159 $79
Place in performance rating 558 592
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,280 gflops 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 640 640
Stream Processors 640
Texture fill rate 40 GTexel / s 24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 956 million
Core clock speed 750 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync