NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M SLI: specs and benchmarks

Price now 149$

Games supported 83%

Year of release 2013

Performance 19.42

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 780M SLI sales 30 May 2013. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

19.42%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 780M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	227
Value for money	35.97
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	N14E-GTX
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	30 May 2013 (10 years old)
Current price	$149	of 158889 (A100 PCIe)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 780M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 780M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	823 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	7080 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 780M SLI'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
SLI options	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 780M SLI: 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	2x 4 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Shared memory	-

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M SLI. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 780M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 780M SLI 19.42

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GTX 780M SLI 36004

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GTX 780M SLI 14140

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GTX 780M SLI 8009

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GTX 780M SLI 66148

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GTX 780M SLI 10091

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 780M SLI 133

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 780M SLI 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

35−40

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	65−70
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	50−55
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
Hitman 3	55−60
Horizon Zero Dawn	40−45
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	65−70
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	50−55
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
Hitman 3	55−60
Horizon Zero Dawn	40−45
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	40−45
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Battlefield 5	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	50−55
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−33
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30
Metro Exodus	18−20
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	24−27

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	16−18
Battlefield 5	40−45
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Hitman 3	18−20
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Metro Exodus	10−12
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	9−10
Battlefield 5	21−24
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	16−18
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	24−27
Watch Dogs: Legion	7−8

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 780M SLI performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 102.42

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile 102.06

NVIDIA T1200 Mobile 101.44

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M SLI 100

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire 97.68

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 97.22

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile 96.7

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 780M SLI is Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire, which is slower by 2% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.