NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points
1882 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS
49 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS
33 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points
697.32 points
124% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points
40962 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points
37410 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz
3% slightly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz
1537 MHz
70% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
499% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s
200% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

43.3 Gigapixels/s
49.18 Gigapixels/s
13% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s
76% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
12% slightly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
200% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the RTX A500 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A500 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 780.

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