GeForce GT 710 PCI vs Radeon RX 480

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularity94not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.81no data
Power efficiency10.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameEllesmereGF119
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)2 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores230448
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHz810 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate182.36.480
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS0.1555 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1448

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).

Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length241 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s10.67 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0+
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan+N/A
Mantlen/a-
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 29 Watt

RX 480 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GT 710 PCI, on the other hand, has 417.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GT 710 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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