GeForce GT 710M vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GT 710M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2013
GeForce GT 710M
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710M

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710MRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGF117 (N14M-GL)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders96vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock775 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710MRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710MRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP15 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date9 Jan 2013vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710M
    3.10 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710M
    12.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710M
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710M
    297.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better