Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

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)no data
GPU code nameJuniperno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 October 2010 (14 years ago)31 October 2023 (1 year 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 cores80040
Core clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data53 Watt
Texture fill rate34.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no data

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Width2-slotno data

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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1200 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth76.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)no data
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2010 31 October 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm

Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5770 X2 and Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5770 X2 is a desktop card while Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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