NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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

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$ 335.00

$ 73.96 slightly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

15% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

97% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 780 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 780.