NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00

$ 119.96 significantly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

14% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

311.05 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

4.16 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

2304

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce GTX 780.