Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2010 May 2013
Generation Northern Islands GeForce 700
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1753 MHz
Base Clock 1046 MHz
Boost Clock 1085 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14
Shading Units 1120 1536
TMUs 56 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 34.72 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 138.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 3.333 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 138.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts GK104
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000) GK104-425-A2
Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 151W 230W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.1
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 3.0