[ Hexus ] Nvidia launches GeForce GT 710, says its 10x better than an IGP

[KaRLiToS]

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Nvidia has launched the GeForce GT 710 graphics card. This modest card, costing just £29.99 (RRP), still represents a big step up in capabilities compared to most integrated graphics solutions - up to 10x faster, for example, according to Nvidia. It also represents a hefty step up in capabilities compared to the previous generation card, with a 70 per cent performance increase and offering multi monitor support for up to three HD displays.

VGA GeForce GT 710 lineup

2GB Memory:

02G-P3-2717-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 2GB (Single Slot, Dual DVI)
02G-P3-2713-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 2GB (Single Slot, Low Profile)
02G-P3-2712-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 2GB (Dual Slot, Low Profile, Passive)
1GB Memory:

01G-P3-2716-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 1GB (Single Slot, Dual DVI)
01G-P3-2711-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 1GB (Single Slot, Low Profile)
01G-P3-2710-KR = EVGA GeForce GT 710 1GB (Dual Slot, Low Profile, Passive)

Other benefits with the GeForce GT 710 graphics card include; DirectX 12 support (feature level 11), support for resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 pixels (or as high as 3840x2160 at 30Hz, or 4096x2160 at 24Hz), DVI-D, HDMI and VGA connectors, and support for up to three simultaneous displays.

Awsome card if you need something cheap and only do web browsing or light gaming. Support up to 4k at 30hz or 1600p at 60hz.

 

[Shivansps]

x10 times of a IGP? they mean their own GF7025 IGP?

 

[KaRLiToS]

x10 times of a IGP? they mean their own GF7025 IGP?

Read the article, this card is actually something good for the price, passive cooling, directx 12...etc...etc.

 

[Silverforce11]

Read the article, this card is actually something good for the price, passive cooling, directx 12...etc...etc.

Sure, but is it faster than the iGPU in modern i3 or i5?

 

[KaRLiToS]

Sure, but is it faster than the iGPU in modern i3 or i5?

I couldnt find any bench :thumbsdown:

 

[Arachnotronic]

Pointless card, IMO. Might as well use the iGPU. This is basically Tegra K1 GPU on a card...

 

[xorbe]

Can't wait to SLI these beasts! :sneaky:

I couldnt find any bench :thumbsdown:

Yeah, it's so hard to find benches of the slow cards. Try PassMark iirc (after it's been out a while).

 

[thesmokingman]

Read the article, this card is actually something good for the price, passive cooling, directx 12...etc...etc.

What you need dx12 for if you're just browsing? I don't get this product. Why? Anyone whose building a pc for your moms will not build one that cost them extra for a discrete gpu. Also, how what is light gaming at 4k?

 

[Silverforce11]

What you need dx12 for if you're just browsing? I don't get this product. Why? Anyone whose building a pc for your moms will not build one that cost them extra for a discrete gpu. Also, how what is light gaming at 4k?

It doesn't even have full h265 support so its not really a good HTPC product. Maybe for people who want lots of monitors, since its cheap.

 

[cbn]

Nvidia also make the GT 720 (which is also based on Kepler GK208). In fact, its been out since 2014.

But according to Nvidia's spec pages this GT 710 actually has a higher core clock:

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-720/specifications (GT 720, 192 CUDA cores@ 797 Mhz)

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-710/specifications (GT 710, 192 CUDA cores@ 954 Mhz)

 

[cbn]

Would be interesting to see how the street price on this GT 710 compares to the GT 720? (which I feel is overpriced considering back in 2014 the Zotac GT 630 (384 CUDA Core GK208) was regularly $34.99 shipped at Newegg).

 

[cbn]

Pointless card, IMO. Might as well use the iGPU.

For old machines (eg, Core 2) these type of cards work well.

Even for Sandy Bridge generation (eg, i5-2500) it would be a big improvement in graphics. This due to only the unlocked processors getting HD3000. The rest of the Sandy Bridge desktop line-up got the 6 EU HD2000 (or HD graphics...which didn't have quick sync).

With that mentioned, this GT 710 would still be a good amount faster than the HD3000.

 

[thesmokingman]

It doesn't even have full h265 support so its not really a good HTPC product. Maybe for people who want lots of monitors, since its cheap.

Well, I wasn't expecting it to have full hevc support since there's only one card that has encode and decode in hw. And that is the GTX960 iirc, so logically there's no way they could make a card for 50 bucks that could displace that card for those duties.

 

[cbn]

Well, I wasn't expecting it to have full hevc support since there's only one card that has encode and decode in hw. And that is the GTX960 iirc, so logically there's no way they could make a card for 50 bucks that could displace that card for those duties.

Yep, We have to wait for GP108 in order to get HEVC and HDMI 2.0 on a low end desktop card.

With that mentioned, I am still interested to see if Nvidia will launch a GM108 desktop card (even with 64 bit DDR3, it has the L2 cache which makes better use of the limited bandwidth compared to GK208 with 64 bit DDR3)

 

[thesmokingman]

I hope the software catches up to the HW. That would be fantastic to have more abundant choices with gpu accelerated encoding of hevc. Next gen, both sides will come loaded on hevc.

 

[SPBHM]

checking some 3dmark vantage GPU scores (using this 720 which runs at basically the same clocks), it should outperform the HD4000 from Ivy Bridge, and that also means over 2x the HD 3000

(I'm using Vantage because older IGPs like Sandy Bridge don't support DX11)

for playing some F2P titles on a Sandy Bridge and older this should be a nice upgrade,

but it's shame it doesn't have the same video encoding/decoding capabilities as GM206, it would be nice to have small/cheap card for h265 and VP9.

 

[NTMBK]

Should have just bought a Llano.

 

[dark zero]

They released the 930 before at similar prices.... Why that nonsense?

 

[SPBHM]

Should have just bought a Llano.

yes A8 Llano (IGP from 2011) should be fine against the GT 710

the 720M which should be a good 5-10% faster (memory clock is 2000 vs 1800) than the desktop 710 scores 1146 on 3dm11 GPU, Llano A8 3850 975 (with DDR3 1600).

 

[Glo.]

According to latest benchmarks Intel HD540 from 15W Skylake CPU is on par with GT940M, and that is GM208, with 36W TDP.

I don't know what Nvidia is smoking lately but their marketing needs to work a little.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I couldn't see from the article that NVidia claimed it would be 10x better.

However with that said, these cards isn't for people with relatively new IGPs. But for people with 6-10 year old systems. Sitting with X2/Core 2 and just need an IGP that can run Windows 10. And I am sure it will be 10x faster than those as well.

 

[stahlhart]

This thread was accidentally moved in the process of clearing out the spam attack this morning, and is now reopened.
-- stahlhart

 

[Zodiark1593]

This is a good card to keep your old C2D or Athlon 64 X2 workhorses going, and will still beat out your el cheapo small-core systems now found at big box retailers. Needs HEVC decode to be an excellent low-end card though. That and 4k 60 fps.

Also good for those Xeons with igp disabled, provided you just need display.

 

[tviceman]

Perhaps Nvidia is dumping old inventory at cost and is giving AIB's who opt to help out priority to Pascal when it's ready.

 

[SolMiester]

I need a low budget card to drive 4k, but 30Hz wont cut it....!