NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 710M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 710M, 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

1419 points
1178% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
966% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1976 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
714% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2429 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
679% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
15 W
700% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
555% significantly higher pixel rate
5.75 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
555% significantly higher texture rate
11.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
433% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
300% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
491st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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 960 vs GeForce 710M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the GeForce 710M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce 710M has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce 710M.

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