Radeon Graphics 512SP vs ATI HD 5770 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameJuniperRenoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 July 2010 (14 years ago)7 March 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores800512
Core clock speed850 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate34.0067.20
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4032

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length208 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1195 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth76.48 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 July 2010 7 March 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 512SP has an age advantage of 9 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 620% lower power consumption.

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