NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

2374 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

51 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

34 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

35 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

27 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

3376 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

0.84% slightly higher Blender score

344.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

20877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

59% significantly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

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

336.6 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

55.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

5.34 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2880

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% 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

222nd of 586

186th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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 Max-Q also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q.