NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 37% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 601 MHz
  • 14.1x more texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 7.21 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 240
  • 8.5x better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 13x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3804 vs 292
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 344
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3351 vs 2648
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3351 vs 2648
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 May 2013 vs 6 November 2007
Core clock speed 823 MHz vs 601 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.0 GTexel / s vs 7.21 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 240
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3804 vs 292
PassMark - G2D Mark 422 vs 344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 vs 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 vs 2648

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3804
292
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
422
344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
2648
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 3804 292
PassMark - G2D Mark 422 344
Geekbench - OpenCL 12873
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 705.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 78.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 2648
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1466

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 R600
Launch date 11 May 2013 6 November 2007
Place in performance rating 765 768
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 797 MHz
Core clock speed 823 MHz 601 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1536 240
Texture fill rate 102.0 GTexel / s 7.21 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA