GeForce 315 OEM vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce 315 OEM
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2011
GeForce 315 OEM
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 315 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 315 OEMGeForce GT 710
GPU NameGT215 (GT215-450-A2)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size144 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors727 millionvsunknown
Shaders48vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock506 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 315 OEMGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed350 MHz
700 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 315 OEMGeForce GT 710
TDP33 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date28 Apr 2011vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    2.02 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    8.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    5.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 315 OEM
    97.15 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better