GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 5850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 8 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +99%

4156

Radeon HD 5850

2088

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 700

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

2304

Shading Units

1440

192

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

151W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Cypress

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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