GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 10.35% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 sales 10 September 2013 at a recommended price of $649 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 400 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 1.50 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK110B | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 10 September 2013 (10 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $649 | |
| Current price | $270 (0.4x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2304 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 863 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 902 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 7,080 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 173.2 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 4,156 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 6008 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 288.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.5 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 is Radeon R7 265, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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