GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 480
    513%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Around 413% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

231 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 480

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480

The GeForce GTX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 710
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-375-A3)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvsunknown
Shaders480vs192
Compute Units15vs1
Core clock701 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs60vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 480GeForce GT 710
TDP250 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)