XGI Volari V5 vs Radeon HD 7770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking601not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.45no data
Power efficiency4.83no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeXG41
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)15 September 2003 (21 year 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 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million90 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate40.001.300
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs404

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 x16AGP 8x
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s14.4 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 VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 February 2012 15 September 2003
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

HD 7770 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and XGI Volari V5. We've got no test results to judge.


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