Radeon HD 6775G2 vs HD 7870 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking410not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.48no data
Power efficiency4.33no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameTahitino data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date19 November 2012 (11 years ago)14 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$270 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 cores1536880
Core clock speed925 MHzno data
Boost clock speed975 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattno data
Texture fill rate93.60no data
Floating-point processing power2.995 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs96no 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 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2012 14 June 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

HD 7870 XT has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon HD 6775G2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7870 XT is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6775G2 is a notebook one.


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