AMD Radeon HD 6770M

The AMD Radeon HD 6770M (sometimes also called ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6770 or similar) is a fast middle class graphics card for laptops in 2011. It supports DirectX11, is the successor of the HD 5770, and features higher clock rates, 80 more shaders, Eyefinity+ and the new UVD3 video decoder. However, it is still produced in 40nm and based on the same Whistler chip as the entire 6700M and 6600M series. The chip is normally clocked at 725 MHz, but is only clocked at 675 MHz in the MacBook Pro 15 Late 2011 model.
The 480 Stream processors should still based on the "old" 5D architecture similar to the 5000 series. Therefore, the number of shaders is not comparable to the 1D cores of current Nvidia GPUs. The Tessellation performance, however, should be an improvement with the new cards. The Stream processors can be used with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL. The latter two APIs can exploit the GPU for general computations like transcoding videos.
The 3D performance of the 6770M is slightly better than the GeForce GT 555M and is therefore positioned in the upper middle class as of 2011. Demanding games like Anno 2070 or Skyrim can only be played in medium detail settings and lower resolutions. Certain games, such as Battlefield 3, may even only run in low detail settings. Older games like Call of Duty: Black Ops are playable with all settings maxed.
The new UVD3 video decoder supports the decoding of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, Flash and now also Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos on the graphics card.
Furthermore, the HD 6700M series integrates an HD audio controller to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g., for Blu-Ray videos).
The AMD HD3D Technology offers support for Blu-Ray 3D and 3D displays (integrated and external). However, the solution is not as mature as 3D Vision from Nvidia in terms of dirvers and overall support.
Thanks to Eyefinity, the AMD card is able to theoretically drive up to 5 monitors simultaneously. This would only work, however, if the laptop features enough DisplayPort outputs.
The power consumption of the 6770M should be similar to the Mobility Radeon HD 5770. As a result, the 6770M is normally only found in 15-inch or larger notebooks.
Radeon HD 6600M/6700M Series
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| Codename | Whistler-XT | |||||||||||||||
| Architecture | Terascale 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 480 - unified | |||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 675 / 725 MHz | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | |||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Transistor Count | 716 Million | |||||||||||||||
| Man. Technology | 40 nm | |||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 04.01.2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com | |||||||||||||||
Benchmarks
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
specvp11 snx-01 +
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Anno 2070
2011
Battlefield 3
2011
Batman: Arkham City
2011
Fifa 12
2011
F1 2011
2011
Dirt 3
2011
Crysis 2
2011
Fifa 11
2010
Mafia 2
2010
StarCraft 2
2010
Metro 2033
2010
CoD Modern Warfare 2
2009| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Wars: The Old Republic | 69.2 | 39.8 | ||||
| Anno 2070 | 100 | 41 | 27 | 14 | ||
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 59 | 41 | 30 | 15 | ||
| Battlefield 3 | 38 | 27 | 22 | |||
| Batman: Arkham City | 77 | 58 | 18 | 8 | ||
| Fifa 12 | 297.1 | 150.8 | 93.7 | 52 | ||
| F1 2011 | 105 | 67 | 36 | 19 | ||
| Deus Ex Human Revolution | 125 | 42 | 19 | |||
| Dirt 3 | 83.2 | 54 | 46.3 | 17 | ||
| Crysis 2 | 83.8 | 56.6 | 40.8 | 13.4 | ||
| Total War: Shogun 2 | 37.3 | 13.5 | ||||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | 95.2 | 63 | 54 | 32 | ||
| Fifa 11 | 436 | 240 | 126 | 64.3 | ||
| Mafia 2 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 28 | ||
| StarCraft 2 | 167 | 65 | 46 | 24.7 | ||
| Just Cause 2 | 13.8 | |||||
| Metro 2033 | 105 | 53 | 23 | 8 | ||
| Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising | 55.4 | 26.5 | ||||
| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 72.7 | 63 | 44 | 21.3 | ||
| Stalker: Call of Pripyat | 12 | |||||
| CoD Modern Warfare 2 | 98.3 | 48.7 | 40 | 26.4 | ||
| Risen | 93 | 46 | 31 | 21.3 | ||
| Resident Evil 5 | 96.2 | 60.8 | 37 | |||
| Need for Speed Shift | 78 | 46 | 42 | 28 | ||
| Colin McRae: DIRT 2 | 87 | 71 | 48 | |||
| Racedriver: GRID | 122.7 | 81.2 | 51.6 | |||
| Trackmania Nations Forever | 35.8 | |||||
| Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare | 247 | 148 | 79.3 | |||
| Supreme Commander - FA Bench | 56.6 | 48.1 | 44 | 27 | ||
| Crysis - GPU Benchmark | 43.8 | 11.9 | ||||
| Crysis - CPU Benchmark | 36.4 | |||||
| World in Conflict - Benchmark | 56 | 20 | ||||
| Call of Juarez Benchmark | 43 | |||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 3 15 6 | 1 12 6 3 | 4 21 3 1 | 21 4 1 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
Notebook reviews with AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card
Review Apple MacBook Pro 15 Late 2011 (2.4 GHz, 6770M, glare)
Review HP Pavilion dv7-6101eg Notebook
Review HP Pavilion dv6-6008eg Notebook
HP Pavilion dv7-6053er: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6152er: Intel Core i5-2410M, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavillion dv7-6153er: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6b70ew: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.60", 2.9 kg
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HP Pavillon dv7-7b13eg: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 17.30", 3.2 kg
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HP Envy 17-1080eo: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 17.30", 3.4 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6b02eg: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 17.30", 3.2 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6b55eg: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.60", 2.9 kg
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Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch 2011-10 MD322: Intel Core i7-2760QM, 15.60", 2.5 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6180us: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6181tx: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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Apple MacBook Pro 17 inch 2011-10 MD311LL/A: Intel Core i7-2760QM, 17.00", 3 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6060ss: Intel Core i5-2410M, 17.30", 0.7 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6173cl: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6080eo: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3.4 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6b99sf: Intel Core i7-2670QM, 17.30", 3.4 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6110ec: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3.3 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6161sf: Intel Core i5-2410M, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6195us: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6077er: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6190ef: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6153cl: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6090ee: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.9 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6013tx: Intel Core i7-2820QM, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6170us: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6013eg: Intel Core i5-2410M, 17.30", 3.4 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6027tx: Intel Core i7-2720QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6101eg: Intel Core i5-2410M, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6143cl: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavilion dv7-6195us: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.30", 3.1 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6051er: Intel Core i5-2410M, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6003tx: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6008eg: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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HP Pavilion dv6-6090ef: Intel Core i7-2630QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
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