GeForce 605 OEM vs Radeon HD 7770

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking594not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.33no data
Power efficiency5.08no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGF119
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)2 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 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 cores64048
Core clock speed1000 MHz523 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate40.004.184
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS0.1004 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs408

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 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz897 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s14.35 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 February 2012 2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 25 Watt

HD 7770 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

605 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and 220% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce 605 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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