NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1260%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

0.366 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.816 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

366.3 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.26 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK208B

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK208-203-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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