GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GTX 460 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 460 X2
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 X2

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GT 710

141 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 460 X2

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460 X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 460 X2GeForce GT 710
GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvsunknown
Shaders336vs192
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock701 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 460 X2GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 460 X2GeForce GT 710
TDP160 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date11 Mar 2011vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 X2
    19.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 460 X2
    78.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 460 X2
    230.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 460 X2
    1883.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better