NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

122% significantly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

51 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

27 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

159% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

572% significantly higher Blender score

344.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

375% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

20877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25535 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

27453 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28485 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27238 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

928 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

300% significantly more memory

3 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

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336.6 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

53% significantly higher pixel rate

55.68 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

222.7 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

138% significantly better floating point performance

5.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

24% slightly more shading units

2880

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

240

114% 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

185th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce GTX 780 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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 RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 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 RTX 3060 is better than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.