NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jul 2011
Generation
GeForce 700
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
863 MHz
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Boost Clock
902 MHz
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Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2304
1120
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK110
Barts
GPU Variant
GK110-300-A1
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Kepler
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
7.08 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
561 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
300W
Suggested PSU
600 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.175
N/A
CUDA
3.5
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Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.