NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 408.96

$ 470.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

38% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

288.4 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

79% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

19% slightly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 vs GeForce GTX 780 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 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 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 780 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 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 980 is better than the GeForce GTX 780.