NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 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) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 71% higher pipelines: 192 vs 112
  • Around 9% better floating-point performance: 366.3 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 125 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date 27 March 2014 vs 1 February 2008
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines 192 vs 112
Floating-point performance 366.3 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 125 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 15.26 GTexel / s
  • 1800x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
Texture fill rate 33.6 GTexel / s vs 15.26 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
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 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Tesla
Code name GK208B G92
Launch date 27 March 2014 1 February 2008
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 600 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 366.3 gflops 336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 95 °C
Pipelines 192 112
Texture fill rate 15.26 GTexel / s 33.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 125 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI
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 2.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm) 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1.8 GB/s 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
PhysX
PureVideo