NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1201MHz vs 902MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 780
+68%
4.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
May 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
863 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
902 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
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1024
Shading Units
2304
64
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
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2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GK110
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
GK110-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.5
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
