NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

2077 points

2374 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

51 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

35 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

344.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

20877 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

12375 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

18144 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

95% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 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

186th of 586

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 Ti specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 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.