GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 780

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    102%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1280vs2304
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock1404 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs80vs192

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 780
TDP80 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)