GeForce GTX 275 vs GeForce GTX 780

GeForce GTX 275
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 275

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 780

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 275GeForce GTX 780
GPU NameGT200B (G200-105-B3)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders240vs2304
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock633 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs28vs48
TMUs80vs192

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 275GeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1134 MHz
2268 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 275GeForce GTX 780
TDP219 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2009vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 275
    17.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 275
    50.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 275
    127.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 275
    673.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better