GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 780

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    295%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    278%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780

178% higher gaming performance.
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)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GTX 780
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders384vs2304
Compute Units8vs12
Core clock823 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs64vs192

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GTX 780
TDP170 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30
  • GeForce GTX 780
    79

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    34
  • GeForce GTX 780
    93

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23
  • GeForce GTX 780
    55

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    29
  • GeForce GTX 780
    80

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    25
  • GeForce GTX 780
    58

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • GeForce GTX 780
    73

FPS (higher is better)