
GeForce GT 710 and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 710
Radeon HD 6970 X2
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GK208B
Antilles
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
-
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Core clock speed
954 MHz
880 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
366.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
375 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
95 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.26
84.48
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1.8 GB/s
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
3 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Vision
+
-
PhysX
+
-
PureVideo
+
-