GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs Radeon R9 380X

Place in the ranking	329	423
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	7.97	1.25
Power efficiency	6.09	3.11
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Antigua	GK110B
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	19 November 2015 (8 years ago)	10 September 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

R9 380X has 538% better value for money than GTX 780 Rev. 2.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	2304
Compute units	32	no data
Core clock speed	no data	863 MHz
Boost clock speed	970 MHz	902 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	124.2	173.2
Floating-point processing power	3.973 TFLOPS	4.156 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	128	192

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	221 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2 x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)	-	no data
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	970 MHz	1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth	182.4 GB/s	288.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	+
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	+	-
FRTC	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
HD3D	+	-
LiquidVR	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
TrueAudio	+	-
ZeroCore	+	-
VCE	+	-
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.1.126
Mantle	+	-
CUDA	-	3.5

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	16.03	10.78
Recency	19 November 2015	10 September 2013
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	190 Watt	250 Watt

R9 380X has a 48.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 31.6% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 380X is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.