GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1178MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +6%

4156

GeForce GTX 970

3920

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

GeForce GTX 970 +29%

3625

Blender

GeForce GTX 780

169

GeForce GTX 970 +80%

305

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 780 +14%

88

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

2304

Shading Units

1664

192

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

56

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GM204

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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