NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition - Technical City

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	625
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.89	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK104
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	8 November 2013 (12 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed	771 MHz	of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed	797 MHz	of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors	3,540 million	of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	of 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate	102.0	of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power	2.448 TFLOPS	of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs	32	of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs	128	of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache	128 KB	of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache	512 KB	of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 and SDK support

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