NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

9% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

2939 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18049 points

21520 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

23785 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21940 points

26093 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

24516 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1038 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1127 MHz

24% 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

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.4 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

72.13 Gigapixels/s

66% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

49% significantly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2014 October

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 980M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 780 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly 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 980M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M.