ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2 vs GeForce GTS 250M
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1083 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 3.40 | no data |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) |
| GPU code name | GT215 | Juniper |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 15 June 2009 (16 years ago) | 13 October 2010 (15 years ago) |
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 cores | 96 | 800 ×2 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 727 million | 1,040 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 28 Watt | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 16.00 | 34.00 ×2 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.24 TFLOPS | 1.36 TFLOPS ×2 |
| Gigaflops | 360 | no data |
| ROPs | 8 | 16 ×2 |
| TMUs | 32 | 40 ×2 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 80 KB |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | 256 KB |
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 size | large | no data |
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| SLI options | + | - |
| MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B | no 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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 1 GB ×2 |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit ×2 |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 2000 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | 76.8 GB/s ×2 |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort |
| HDMI | + | + |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 | no data |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 15 June 2009 | 13 October 2010 |
ATI HD 5770 X2 has an age advantage of 1 year.
We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 250M and Radeon HD 5770 X2. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce GTS 250M is a notebook graphics card while Radeon HD 5770 X2 is a desktop one.
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