NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI 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 GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 810 MHz
6.9x more texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 48
9.3x better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 87% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 2 April 2012
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 810 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

2.6x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	2577
PassMark - G2D Mark	217
Geekbench - OpenCL	9744
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GM107	GF119
Launch date	13 March 2015	2 April 2012
Place in performance rating	797	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	810 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops	155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	640	48
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s	6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB / s	10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	1334 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI