GeForce GT 710 (Fermi) vs Radeon HD 6230

GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Radeon HD 6230
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6230
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6230

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)Radeon HD 6230
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsCedar (Cedar LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs292 million
Shaders48vs80
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock810 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs2
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)Radeon HD 6230
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)Radeon HD 6230
TDP29 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date22 Aug 2014vs2 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    1.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6230
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better