NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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$ 284.17

$ 124.79 significantly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

193% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

209% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

644% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

449% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

47% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

206% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly 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 RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the GeForce GTX 780.