NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 408.96

$ 2356.77 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

42789 points

2278% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

1019 FPS

983 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

503 FPS

477 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

740 FPS

714 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

425 FPS

404 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

14480 points

411% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

14992.38 points

4719% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

383325 points

1547% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

380401 points

1429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

2017 MHz

133% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2407 MHz

166% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

32 GiB

433% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

512 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

129% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

878% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

21760

844% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

680

254% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

266% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 595

1st of 595

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly 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 RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 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 5090 at 575 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the GeForce GTX 780.