GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    1565%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1465% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 GTX 1060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 710
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders1280vs192
Compute Units10vs1
Core clock1506 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GT 710
TDP120 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)