GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs Radeon HD 6770M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking825not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameWhistlerGF106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$129

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 cores480144
Core clock speed725 MHz790 MHz
Number of transistors716 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate17.4018.96
Floating-point processing power0.696 TFLOPS0.455 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2424

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data210 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s96 GB/s
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 outputs2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 106 Watt

HD 6770M has an age advantage of 2 months, and 202.9% lower power consumption.

GTS 450 OEM, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6770M and GeForce GTS 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6770M is a notebook card while GeForce GTS 450 OEM is a desktop one.


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