GeForce GT 220 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 220GeForce GT 710
GPU NameG94 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors505 millionvsunknown
Shaders48vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 220GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 220GeForce GT 710
TDP58 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date26 Jan 2010vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better