NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1050MHz vs 902MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +3%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK110-301-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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