GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare 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 is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 192 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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

The Geforce GTX 780, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be quite a bit (more or less 130%) more effective at 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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, but not by far. (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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.