GeForce GTX 1070 vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 780, which has core speeds of 863 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 192 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1070		18174 points
Geforce GTX 780		10082 points
	Difference: 8092 (80%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is just a bit (about 9%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 780. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15024 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54960 (133%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.