Tegra 3 vs GeForce GTX 770M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking537not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.27no data
Power efficiency6.74no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGK106Tegra 3
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 May 2013 (11 years ago)9 November 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$189.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores960no data
Core clock speed811 MHz416 MHz
Boost clock speed797 MHz520 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate63.764.160
Floating-point processing power1.53 TFLOPSno data
ROPs248
TMUs808

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Standard memory configurationGDDR5no data
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
eDP 1.2 signal supportUp to 3840x2160no data
LVDS signal supportUp to 1920x1200no data
VGA аnalog display supportUp to 2048x1536no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportUp to 3840x2160no data
HDMI+-
HDCP content protection+-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI+-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu-Ray 3D Support+-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+-
Optimus+-
3D Vision / 3DTV Play+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 APIN/A
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.5ES 2.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 May 2013 9 November 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 20 Watt

GTX 770M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Tegra 3, on the other hand, has 275% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 770M and Tegra 3. We've got no test results to judge.


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