GeForce GT 710M vs Radeon RX 480

GeForce GT 710M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 9 Jan 2013
GeForce GT 710M
Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710M

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710MRadeon RX 480
GPU NameGF117 (N14M-GL)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs14 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders96vs2304
Compute Units2vs36
Core clock775 MHzvs1120 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs144

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710MRadeon RX 480
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710MRadeon RX 480
TDP15 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date9 Jan 2013vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710M
    3.10 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710M
    12.40 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710M
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710M
    297.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better