NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 69.54
$ 265.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
1936% significantly better overall score
102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
1793% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
192 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
1666% significantly higher Blender score
20.99 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points
1929% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
1534 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points
1121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1108 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points
1457% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2079 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points
1523% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1939 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points
1038% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1189 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
1535% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1979 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
1394% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
2069 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
29 W
313% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
503rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 710 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 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 1060 at 120 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 1060 over the GeForce GT 710.

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