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AMD Radeon HD 8770M

AMD Radeon HD 8770M

The AMD Radeon HD 8770M (sometimes known as the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 8770) is a DirectX 11.1 graphics card for laptops. It is based on the Mars chip (28nm GCN architecture) with 384 shader cores, 24 TMUs, and 8 ROPs. The core is clocked at 775 MHz (or up to 825 MHz with Boost) with GDDR5 VRAM at 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective).

The performance of the Radeon HD 8770M is in range of the GeForce GT 730M. Current and demanding games like Far Cry 3 will run fluently in medium resolutions and detail settings (as of 2013).

The 384 shaders can be used with OpenCL 1.2 for general-purpose calculations (as 6 compute units). Compared to old TeraScale 2 chips, the GCN-based Mars architecture offers improved performance in this framework.

Features of the 8770M include video decoding via UVD3 for decoding MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and Flash directly from the AMD GPU. Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos are now compatible as well.

The 8700M series also supports automatic graphics switching between the integrated GPU and discrete GPU. Called Enduro, the technology supersedes AMD's Dynamic Switchable Graphics and is similar to Nvidia's Optimus. Furthermore, the 8770M can directly support up to 2 connected monitors using Eyefinity Technology if Enduro is disabled.

Other features of the 8700M series include ZeroCore for reducing power consumption when the display is turned off and Power Gating to power down areas of the chip that are not used. PowerTune allows automatic overclocking and underclocking of the graphics card as long as the GPU is within its TDP limit. For example, the chip may be underclocked when running FurMark and OCCT, but will overclock in certain games like Lost Planet, Crysis or Resident Evil 5.

The integrated HD audio processor is able to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g., for Blu-Ray videos). Additionally, it now allows audio to output simultaneously and in parallel to multiple devices with the new Discrete Digital Multipoint Audio (DDMA) feature.

The power consumption should be similar to the old HD 7670M. As a result, the 8770M is best suited for 13-inch notebooks or larger.

Radeon HD 8700M Series

Radeon HD 8790M compare 384 @ 0.85 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon HD 8770M 384 @ 0.78 GHz128 Bit @ 4500 MHz
Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8750M Dual Graphics compare 640 @ 0.72 GHz128 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Radeon HD 8750M compare 384 @ 0.62 - 0.78 GHz128 Bit @ 2000 - 4000 MHz
Radeon HD 8730M compare 384 @ 0.65 GHz128 Bit @ 2000 MHz
ArchitectureGCN
Pipelines384 - unified
Core Speed775 MHz
Memory Speed4500 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory2048 MB
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0
Transistor Count900 Million
technology28 nm
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement16.11.2012

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* 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.

Fifa 13

Fifa 13

2012
low 1024x768
305.5  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
185.7  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
164.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
92.5  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Anno 2070

Anno 2070

2011
low 1024x768
60.2  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
49.7  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
35.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
15.7  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
lowmed.highultraQHD4K
Fifa 13305.5185.7164.692.5
Anno 207060.249.735.615.7
< 30 fps
< 60 fps
< 120 fps
≥ 120 fps


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Notebook reviews with AMD Radeon HD 8770M graphics card

 

Review Samsung ATIV Book 6 Touch 680Z5E-X01US Notebook

Full-HD mainstream. The Samsung Ativ Book 6 combines a powerful quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a dedicated AMD graphics card with a generous ...
Intel Core i7-3635QM | AMD Radeon HD 8770M | 15.60" | 2.4 kg

Samsung ATIV 680Z5E-X01US: Intel Core i7-3635QM, 15.60", 2.4 kg
  External Review » Samsung ATIV 680Z5E-X01US

Samsung 780Z5E-S01UB: Intel Core i7-3635QM, 15.60", 2.4 kg
  External Review » Samsung 780Z5E-S01UB

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