GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 780
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1725MHz vs 902MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+388%
20310
GeForce GTX 780
4156
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
+388%
13641
GeForce GTX 780
2790
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
May 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
863 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
902 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2304
184
TMUs
192
96
ROPs
48
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GK110
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK110-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.5
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
