NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 408.96

$ 341.03 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

14445 points

702% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

292 FPS

255 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

213 FPS

187 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

260 FPS

234 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

124 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

4221 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

2747.99 points

783% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10316 points

224476 points

2075% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

176249 points

657% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

177326 points

613% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1890 MHz

119% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2310 MHz

156% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

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

576 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

34% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

582% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

326% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

469% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

5120

122% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

320

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 604

21st of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 780 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT over the GeForce GTX 780.