NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 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

3839 points

113% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

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

336.6 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

Identical

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

138% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

22% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

192

9% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2013 May

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 980 Ti vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GeForce GTX 780 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 780.