Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2013 | Dec 2010 |
| Generation | GeForce 700 | Northern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 863 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 902 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.4GB/s | 176.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 192 | 96 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 24 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 43.30 GPixel/s | 28.16 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 173.2 GTexel/s | 84.48 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.156 TFLOPS | 2.703 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 173.2 GFLOPS | 675.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK110B | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | GK110-300-B1 | Cayman XT(215-0807007) |
| Architecture | Kepler | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 7.08 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | N/A |
| CUDA | 3.5 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.0 |