GeForce 210 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 210GeForce GT 710
GPU NameGT218 (GT218-300-B1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors260 millionvsunknown
Shaders16vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock520 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 210GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 210GeForce GT 710
TDP31 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date12 Oct 2009vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better