NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti and ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 669 MHz
4.5x more pipelines: 2880 vs 2x 320
6.2x better floating-point performance: 5,345 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
11.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9517 vs 822
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 635 vs 422

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 November 2013 vs 4 April 2008
Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 669 MHz
Pipelines	2880 vs 2x 320
Floating-point performance	5,345 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9517 vs 822
PassMark - G2D Mark	635 vs 422

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 250 Watt
236.6x more memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 210 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9517

822

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

635

422

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	9517	822
PassMark - G2D Mark	635	422
Geekbench - OpenCL	28211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	75.429
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2001.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	58.067
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	182.11
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3333

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK110B	RV670
Launch date	7 November 2013	4 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$349
Place in performance rating	397	344
Price now	$749.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	14.80
Technical info
Boost clock speed	928 MHz
Core clock speed	875 MHz	669 MHz
CUDA cores	2880
Floating-point performance	5,345 gflops	2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2880	2x 320
Texture fill rate	210 billion / sec	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	One 8-pin and one 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	336 GB / s	2x 53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA