NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition sales 8 November 2013. 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. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 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. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 122 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 6.67% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 529 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 1.10 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 8 November 2013 (10 years old) | |
| Current price | $149 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 771 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 797 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 3,540 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 122 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 102.0 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2,448 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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 | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Width | MXM Module |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: 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 | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 160.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition. 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 | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is Radeon HD 6950, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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