NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 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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$ 559.30

$ 408.96

$ 150.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

350% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

160 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

381% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

986% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

729% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

543% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

450% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

73% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 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

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

13% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

282% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

83% significantly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

388% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

155% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

192

4% 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

53rd of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 3070 vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly 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 RTX 3070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 780.