AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GHz Edition 

Overview  

Specifications 

AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GHz Edition Feature Summary

• 1000MHz Engine Clock
• Up to 2GB GDDR5 Memory
• 1125MHz Memory Clock (4.5 Gbps GDDR5)
• 72GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
• 1.28 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
• GCN Architecture
  • 10 Compute Units (640 Stream Processors)
  • 40 Texture Units
  • 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 16 Color ROP Units
  • Dual Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE)
• 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11.1-capable graphics
• OpenGL 4.2 support
• Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
  • Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
• Image quality enhancement technology
  • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
  • Adaptive anti-aliasing
  • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
  • Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology¹
  • Up to 6 displays supported
  • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
  • Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio (DDMA)
• AMD App Acceleration²
  • Supports OpenCL™ 1.2, DirectCompute 11 & Microsoft C++ AMP
  • Double Precision Floating Point
  • AMD HD Media Accelerator
    • Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
      • H.264
      • VC-1
      • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
      • MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
      • MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
      • Adobe Flash
      • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
      • WMV HD
    • Video Codec Engine (VCE)
      • Multi-stream hardware H.264 encoder
      • Full-fixed mode: 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding
      • Hybrid mode: Stream Processor-assisted encoding
    • Enhanced Video Quality features
      • Advanced post-processing and scaling
        • Deblocking
        • Denoising
        • Automatic deinterlacing
        • Mosquito noise reduction
        • Edge enhancement
        • 3:2 pulldown detection
      • Advanced video color correction
        • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
        • Independent video gamma control
        • Flesh tone correction
        • Color vibrance control
        • Dynamic contrast
        • Dynamic video range control
• AMD HD3D technology⁴
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3^rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology⁵
  • Supports dual-GPU performance scaling
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
    • Quad HD/4k video support
    • 1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
  • HDMI® (With 4K, 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
    • Max resolution: 4096x2160
    • 2560x1600p60 Stereoscopic 3D
    • Quad HD/4k video support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
    • Max resolution: 2560x1600
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048x1536
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology³
  • Automatic power management with low power idle states
• AMD PowerTune technology³
  • Intelligent TDP management technology
  • Dynamic clockspeed/performance enhancement for games
• AMD ZeroCore Power technology³
  • Ultra-low idle power when the system’s display is off
  • Efficient low power mode for desktop work
  • Secondary GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration power down when unneeded
• AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
  • Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
  • AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
  • Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.

System Requirements 

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 500W (or greater) power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended⁷
• 600W power supply (or greater) with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connectors recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology.
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 4GB of system memory
• 8GB (or more) of system memory recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
• DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
• For an AMD CrossFire™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GPU, an AMD CrossFire™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
• Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle. See http://www.amd.com/EyefinityDongles for a list of validated DisplayPort dongles.
• Windows Vista® or Windows® 7 operating system. 64-bit operating system highly recommended. Windows® XP not currently supported – see the following support page for additional details: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/hd7900seriesxpsupport.aspx
• Not for industrial or commercial use. See AMD FirePro™ Graphics solutions for these applications.

Footnotes 

Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

1. AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. Support for six simultaneous displays may require complementary products compatible with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport. Maximum number of configured displays may vary - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.
2. AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at http://www.amd.com/HD3D.
3. AMD CrossFire™ technology requires an AMD CrossFire Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
4. Utilization of PCI Express 3.0 bandwidth requires a mainboard equipped with a PCI Express 3.0 PHY. Not all mainboards feature this technology – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
5. AMD PowerPlay™, AMD ZeroCore Power and AMD PowerTune are technologies offered by certain AMD Radeon™ products, which are designed to intelligently manage GPU power consumption in response to certain GPU load conditions. Not all products feature all technologies – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
6. AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™, DirectCompute or DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products
7. Minimum recommended system power supply wattage is based on the specific graphics card and the typical power requirements of other system components. Your system may require more or less power. OEM and other pre-assembled PCs may have different power requirements.

Reviews 

AnandTech.com “…with the 7750 coming in at 104W at the wall and the 7770 at 106W. AMD’s continuing efforts to reduce idle power consumption are clearly paying off, making this the lowest idle power usage figures we’ve recorded yet.” - Ryan Smith, AnandTech

HardOCP.com “…if you have anything under a GTX 560 Ti like a GTX 550, or 550 Ti or 560 non-Ti, then the Radeon HD 7770 would be an upgrade.” –B. Justice, HardOCP “The HD 7770 delivers the same gameplay experience as a GTX 560 Ti, and is less expensive” –B. Justice, HardOCP “The Radeon HD 7770 video card is absolutely perfect for 1080p displays, or displays capable of 1920x1200. In every game we tested here today we had no need to drop below 1920x1200 resolution to scale up in-game eye candy.” –B. Justice, HardOCP

HotHardware.com “All told, the Radeon HD 7700 series cards look solid at their respective price points and are certainly worthy of consideration if you’re in the market for an affordable GPU.” -M. Chiappetta, HotHardware

LegitReviews.com “The most impressive areas of Cape Verde were without a doubt the series power efficiency. AMD has a very efficient design here that doesn't require much power and therefore doesn't produce much heat. That leads to power savings, lower temperatures and GPU cooling solutions that don't make much noise.” –N. Kirsch, LegitReviews

PCPerspective.com “As it stands today the Radeon HD 7770 is the most power efficient card at the $160 price point…” –R. Shrout, PC Perspective

Rage3d.com “The AMD Radeon HD 7700 series should be the default choice for the majority of upgraders, system builders and value-added resellers who are looking for the best balance of power and performance today's most common resolutions, supporting the latest features and standards.” –J. Prior, Rage 3D