NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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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$ 749.99

$ 408.96

$ 341.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

545% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

174 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

522% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

1450% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

1043% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

765% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

474% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

644% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

66% significantly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

384 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

163% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

250 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

279% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

168% significantly higher texture rate

173.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

616% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

277% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

41% slightly more texture mapping units

192

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

32nd 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

GDDR6X

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 3080 vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 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 GTX 780 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the GeForce GTX 780.