NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1733MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +113%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

GeForce GTX 1080 +169%

7536

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

2304

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GP104

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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