GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    397%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 297% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950M .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 710
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvsunknown
Shaders640vs192
Compute Units5vs1
Core clock993 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 710
TDP75 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)