GeForce GT 710 vs GeForce GTX 970
Summary
GeForce GT 710
100%
GeForce GTX 970
1418%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 |
| 129 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| Around 1318% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 710 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 1664 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 13 |
| Core clock | 954 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 56 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 104 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 710 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 710 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 148 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Mar 2014 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
GeForce GT 710
3.82 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 710
15.26 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 710
14.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 710
366.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 710
1110
GeForce GTX 970
15750
Points (higher is better)