NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M: specs and benchmarks

Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 780M sales 11 May 2013. This is Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 122 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 18.79 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 780M's architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 780M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 780M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
CUDA cores
1536
Transistor count
3,540 million
of 21100
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 780M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
large
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
SLI options
+
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 780M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Standard memory configuration
GDDR5
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 780M.
Display Connectors
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
HDMI
+
HDCP content protection
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
GPU Boost
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
Optimus
+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+
CUDA
+
FXAA
+
TXAA
+
Direct Compute
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 API
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
OpenCL
1.1
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 780M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
18.79
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
35965
3DMark Fire Strike Score
4742
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
5244
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
7777
3DMark Vantage Performance
26827
Unigine Heaven 3.0
76
Passmark
4015
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
5290
Octane Render OctaneBench
37
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 780M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
82 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 780M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 780M performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 780M from AMD is Radeon R9 M290X, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our rating.