NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 408.96

$ 339.79

$ 69.17 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

6694 points

272% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

161 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

77 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

113 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

61 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

3124.65 points

904% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

101567 points

336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

99687 points

300% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1925 MHz

123% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2075 MHz

130% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

0.14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

200 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

206% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

120% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

488% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5888

155% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

4% slightly more texture mapping units

184

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

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 4060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4060 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 RTX 4060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a slightly lower TDP at 200 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4060 over the GeForce GTX 780.