NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

$ 265.00
$ 69.54
$ 195.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
1291% significantly better overall score
102 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
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 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

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
1094% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
192 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
699% significantly higher Blender score
20.99 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
1059% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
1534 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
691% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1108 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
913% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2079 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
1054% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1939 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
637% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1189 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
900% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1979 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
907% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
2069 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
680% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.37 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
29 W
313% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
2227% significantly higher pixel rate
1.62 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
1063% significantly higher texture rate
6.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
2033% significantly more shading units
48

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
700% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
503rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2016 January

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 GT 710 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 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 960 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the GeForce GT 710.

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