GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce RTX 4090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 450W)

GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 179% (2520MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

14080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4156

GeForce RTX 4090 +1887%

82580

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

GeForce RTX 4090 +1205%

36499

Blender

GeForce GTX 780

169

GeForce RTX 4090 +7233%

12393

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 780

88

GeForce RTX 4090 +1347%

1274

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

2304

Shading Units

16384

192

TMUs

512

48

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

450W

600 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

AD102

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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