GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jul 2009
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    118%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Around 18% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 240 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 240 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 240 OEM

The GeForce GTS 240 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 710
GPU NameG92B (G92-240-B1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors754 millionvsunknown
Shaders112vs192
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock675 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 710
TDP120 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Jul 2009vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    37.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    362.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    1320
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)