NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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

1799 points

203% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

129% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18049 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21940 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1097 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1176 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

259% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

65 W

284% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

130% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

268% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

176% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

259% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

380% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2015 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

GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.