NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +871%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

192

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

140W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

-

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

RV670

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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