GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 6.69% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition sales 8 November 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. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 122 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 560 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 3.82 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK104 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 8 November 2013 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 771 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 797 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 3,540 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 122 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 102.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.448 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition: 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 | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 160.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is Radeon RX 550 Mobile, which is faster by 4% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.
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