NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1733MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +113%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GK110B

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 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 8-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

6.1

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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