GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R5 240 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameGK208 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units1vs5
Core clock954 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP19 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better