Radeon Instinct Vega vs HD 7770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking595not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.33no data
Power efficiency4.89no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCape VerdeVega 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores640no data
Core clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate40.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.28 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length210 mm267 mm
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 8-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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sno data
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-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 225 Watt

HD 7770 has 181.3% lower power consumption.

Instinct Vega, on the other hand, has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon Instinct Vega. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7770
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