NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 and AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 730 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 50 Watt

Launch date	27 March 2014 vs 1 November 2013
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 730 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 15.26 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 320 vs 192
Around 36% better floating-point performance: 499.2 gflops vs 366.3 gflops
1800x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s

Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 15.26 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 192
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops vs 366.3 gflops
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	623
PassMark - G2D Mark	212
Geekbench - OpenCL	1946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	100.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	8.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	20.64
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1494
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1833
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1494
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1833
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	192

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208B	Oland
Launch date	27 March 2014	1 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$34.99
Place in performance rating	1488	not rated
Price now	$34.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	23.15
Technical info
Core clock speed	954 MHz	730 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	366.3 gflops	499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	95 °C
Pipelines	192	320
Texture fill rate	15.26 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		780 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Height	2.713" (6.9 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1.8 GB/s	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
PhysX
PureVideo