GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 780, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 863 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 192 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 780		10082 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 2455 (32%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 780		20 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (82%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 780 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176384 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be much (about 130%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93568 (130%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, but only just. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5360 (15%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.