Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2013 | Sep 2014 |
| Generation | GeForce 700 | GeForce 900 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 863 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 902 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 6GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.4GB/s | 224.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1664 |
| TMUs | 192 | 104 |
| ROPs | 48 | 56 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 43.30 GPixel/s | 65.97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 173.2 GTexel/s | 122.5 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.156 TFLOPS | 3.920 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 173.2 GFLOPS | 122.5 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK110B | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | GK110-301-B1 | GM204-200-A1 |
| Architecture | Kepler | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 7.08 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 148W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 3.5 | 5.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |