NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

102 points
223 points
118% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1534 points
2901 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1108 points
2083 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2079 points
3649 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1939 points
3524 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1189 points
2223 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1979 points
3991 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2069 points
3524 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

14.37 GB/s
64 GB/s
345% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

29 W
72% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.62 Gigapixels/s
7.6 Gigapixels/s
369% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

6.48 Gigatexels/s
30.4 Gigatexels/s
369% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

48
384
700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

8
32
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
16
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

502nd of 586
413th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January
2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GT 710 vs GeForce GTX 660M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660M graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 710 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 710 has a significantly lower TDP at 29 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660M at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660M over the GeForce GT 710.

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