Radeon HD 6770M Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking914not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK107Whistler
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 July 2012 (11 years ago)28 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Current price$50 $180

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384480
Core clock speed900 MHz725 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate28.8017.40
Floating-point performance691.2 gflops696.0 gflops

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 x16MXM-A (3.0)
Widthno dataMXM Module

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5016 MHz3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.26 GB/s57.6 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 July 2012 28 January 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 35 Watt

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
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