NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 and ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 91% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 7.6x more texture fill rate: 15.26 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 41 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 623 vs 99
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 March 2014 vs 1 October 2007
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.26 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 41 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 623 vs 99

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

  • 780x more memory clock speed: 780 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 273 vs 212
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 780 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 273 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
623
99
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
212
273
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 623 99
PassMark - G2D Mark 212 273
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 ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 R500
Code name GK208B RV530
Launch date 27 March 2014 1 October 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $34.99 $199
Place in performance rating 1488 634
Price now $34.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 23.15

Technical info

Core clock speed 954 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 366.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 95 °C
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 15.26 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 41 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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 1.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1.8 GB/s 780 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
PhysX
PureVideo