GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +281%

4156

GeForce GTX 470

1089

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

2304

Shading Units

448

192

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

40

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GF100

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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