Radeon RX 5770 vs HD 7730

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking746not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency4.61no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNavi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 May 2013 (11 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1125 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sno data

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, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 225 Watt

HD 7730 has 378.7% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7730 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7730
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