
GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 780 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 780
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
GeForce GTX 780
8247
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 780
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GK110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
May 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Minimum recommended system power
-
600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
One 8-pin and one 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
863 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
2304
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
4,156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
7,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
95 °C
Texture fill rate
277.3
160.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
288.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.3
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
3D Vision Live
-
+
Ansel
+
-
Blu Ray 3D
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
-
PhysX
-
+
VR Ready
+
-