GeForce GTX 670 vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

GeForce GTX 670
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 May 2012
GeForce GTX 670
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 670

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

141 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 670 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 670

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 670GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-325-A2)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs292 million
Shaders1344vs48
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock915 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs112vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 670GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 670GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
TDP170 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date10 May 2012vs22 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670
    25.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670
    102.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 670
    192.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 670
    2460.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better