NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 408.96

$ 132.99 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

12174 points

576% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

289 FPS

252 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

141 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

206 FPS

180 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

114 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

3862 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

5402.96 points

1636% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

168368 points

623% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

158623 points

537% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

2190 MHz

153% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2430 MHz

169% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

360 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

20% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

348% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

214% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

738% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

7168

211% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

224

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2023 April

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 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 RTX 4070 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 GTX 780 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 RTX 4070 is better than the GeForce GTX 780.