NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, 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

1799 points

2438 points

35% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

49 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

39 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

31 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

32 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

324.97 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18049 points

30206 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

33671 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21940 points

36656 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

35111 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

33988 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1506 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1709 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

80% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

4.38 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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 5GB 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB is better than the GeForce GTX 780.