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| | GeForce GTX 960 vs 780 |
Released January, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
by techPowerUp!Out of the box it runs a large overclock of 1215 MHz base clock, boosting up to 1456 MHz.
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Released May, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
- 863 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
by techPowerUp!While the technical aspects of the cooler are certainly nice, it cannot compete with NVIDIA's reference design cooler visually, which is without a doubt the best-looking one in the industry.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960 vs 780 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
No winner declared
Too close to call
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 32,987 | vs | 14,020 | More than 2.2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,127 MHz | vs | 863 MHz | More than 30% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,008 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 902 MHz | More than 30% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,502 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Much lower TDP | 120W | vs | 250W | 2.1x lower TDP | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 35,080 | vs | 10,767.5 | More than 3.2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much higher memory bandwidth | 288.4 GB/s | vs | 112.2 GB/s | More than 2.5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 42,870 | vs | 32,171 | Around 35% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Better PassMark score | 8,010 | vs | 5,892 | More than 35% better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly higher texture rate | 165.7 GTexel/s | vs | 72.1 GTexel/s | More than 2.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Many more texture mapping units | 192 | vs | 64 | Three times as many texture mapping units | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,977 GFLOPS | vs | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | More than 70% better floating-point performance | |||
| More memory | 3,072 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 50% more memory | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 2,304 | vs | 1,024 | 1280 more shading units | |||
| More render output processors | 48 | vs | 32 | 16 more render output processors | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 95.3 fps | vs | 75.8 fps | More than 25% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,947 | vs | 2,980 | More than 30% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 74 | vs | 58 | Around 30% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 384 bit | vs | 128 bit | 3x wider memory bus | |||
Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960 vs 780
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
GeForce GTX 960
5,892
GeForce GTX 780
8,010
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
111.95 mHash/s
GeForce GTX 780
248.72 mHash/s
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
69.13 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 780
55.33 mPixels/s
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
780.9 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
1,356.07 frames/s
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
710.39 mInteraction/s
GeForce GTX 780
688.44 mInteraction/s
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
3.92 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
5.3 frames/s
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
GeForce GTX 960
25.99 frames/s
GeForce GTX 780
90.5 frames/s
Battlefield 4
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| GeForce GTX 960 | vs | 780 | ||
| 9.0 | 9.3 | GeForce GTX 780 | |
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