NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3 GB, 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

2262 points

2374 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

51 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

35 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

27 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

344.38 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

20877 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

12375 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

18144 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

55.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

5.34 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2880

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

240

130% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

185th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly 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 GTX 970 also has a slightly 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 GTX 970 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 970.