NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1178MHz vs 902MHz)

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB +6%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

192

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK110B

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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