NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 408.96

$ 1411.03 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

33119 points

1740% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

787 FPS

750 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

382 FPS

356 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

567 FPS

541 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

318 FPS

297 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

9236 points

226% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

11723.75 points

3669% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

318192 points

1267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

273214 points

998% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

2235 MHz

158% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2520 MHz

179% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

1010 GB/s

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

79% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

1017% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

644% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1887% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

16384

611% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

512

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 4090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 780 has a significantly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 4090 over the GeForce GTX 780.