MSI GTX 780 Lightning LE vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

Comparison of MSI GTX 780 Lightning LE with 3 GB GDDR5 and 2,304 cores vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms MSI GTX 780 Lightning LE by 1,207.2% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI GTX 780 Lightning LE

3.6

MSI GTX 780 Lightning LE

3.6
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB
🔥 +967% 32 ГБ

Memory Type

GDDR5 GDDR7

Memory Bandwidth

288.4 GB/s
🔥 1.79 TB/s

Memory Bus Width

384 бит 512 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

No
🔥 118.8 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

4.336 TFLOPS
🔥 +2,640% 118.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

0.1807 TFLOPS
🔥 +927% 1.856 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

2,304
🔥 +844% 21,760

RT Cores

No
🔥 170

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Kepler Blackwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

No
🔥 170

PCIe Version

PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

3.5
🔥 12.0

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

889
🔥 +127% 2,017

Boost Clock

941
🔥 +190% 2,730

Memory Clock

1,502
🔥 +17% 1,750

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

🔥 -57% 600 W
1400 W

Power Connector

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

🔥 -75% 250 W
1000 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

192
🔥 +254% 680

ROP

No
🔥 170

L2 Cache

1536 KB
🔥 96 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Triple-slot

Release Date

Dec. 9, 2013 Jan. 6, 2026

Display Outputs

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C

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