NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1178MHz vs 928MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +121%

5.345 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +46%

3343

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

192

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +83%

353

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960

46

GeForce GTX 780 Ti +123%

103

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

875 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

928 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2880

64

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.345 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GK110B

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-425-B1

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

Board Design

120W

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

1x 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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