GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1178MHz vs 902MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
+6%
4156
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
863 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
902 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
2304
104
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK110B
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GK110-300-B1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
