Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 780
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 23 May 2013
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
6144 Mb GDDR5
Released 10 Sep 2013
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 780100%
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 780
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 | GeForce GTX 780 6 GB |
| GPU Name | GK110 (GK110-300-A1) | GK110B (GK110-301-B1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | 561 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,080 million | 7,080 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | 2304 |
| Compute Units | 12 | 12 |
| Core clock | 863 MHz | 863 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | 48 |
| TMUs | 192 | 192 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 | GeForce GTX 780 6 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780 | GeForce GTX 780 6 GB |
| TDP | 250 watts | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 23 May 2013 | 10 Sep 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 78041.40 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB41.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 780166.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB166.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 780288.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB288.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 7803977.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB3977.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 78013770
- GeForce GTX 780 6 GB13770
Points (higher is better)