ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs HD 6770 Green Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameJuniperCypress
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 April 2013 (11 years ago)11 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$479

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 cores7201600
Core clock speed700 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)86 Watt228 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2068.00
Floating-point processing power1.008 TFLOPS2.72 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3680

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length170 mm279 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s153.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 April 2013 11 March 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 86 Watt 228 Watt

HD 6770 Green Edition has an age advantage of 3 years, and 165.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition
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