GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2013
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    295%

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 6 GB .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 195% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

The GeForce GTX 780 6 GB is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GTX 780 6 GB
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-301-B1)
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 6 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiGeForce GTX 780 6 GB
TDP170 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs10 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    13770

Points (higher is better)