GeForce GTX 960M vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 780, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 863 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, 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 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 5732 (132%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 780 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224384 (351%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be quite a bit (more or less 278%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 121856 (278%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23888 (136%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.