GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon X1950 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

2304

Shading Units

-

192

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

57W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

RV570

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Kepler

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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