GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q vs GT 710M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1070not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.35no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF117GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 2013 (11 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores962560
Core clock speed775 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1035 MHz
Number of transistors585 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate12.4082.80
Floating-point processing power0.2976 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s176.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.18.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2013 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

GT 710M has 400% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 710M and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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