NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, 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

84% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

11 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

150.78 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18049 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9499 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

9797 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5899 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11021 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21940 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

11207 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10316 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7558 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12659 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

941 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

967 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

140% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

100 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

27.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

108.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

59% significantly better floating point performance

2.60 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

71% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2014 March

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 870M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 870M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 870M has a slightly 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 870M also has a slightly 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 870M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 780 over the GeForce GTX 870M.