NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

2494 points

5% slightly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

51 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

27 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

344.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

20877 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

12375 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

18144 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

31% 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

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

55.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

5.34 TFLOPS

7% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2880

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% 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

186th 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 980 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 980 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti at 250 W. 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 is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.