The segment of ultra-budget desktop graphics cards is not diverse. The venerable company "Nvidia" decided to slightly correct this state of affairs and introduced a new discrete chip on the market - NVIDIA GeForce GT 710. The characteristics of the card fully correspond to the price segment, that is, it does not shine with speed and high-quality visualization in modern applications.
The developer equipped the chipset with flexible components, so the video card can be overclocked to increase performance. A brief specification of the device is as follows: clock frequency - 954 MHz, 2 GB of memory type GDDR3 (there is a modification with 1 GB) and a bandwidth of 14.5 GB / s.
The NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 graphics card supports all standard HDCP and HDMI interfaces, and also allows you to connect a second monitor to the parallel port. The device itself is small, so it takes up one slot on the motherboard.
Manufacturers
As in other similar cases, the company "Nvidia" presented the drawings and design developments to its regular partners. In addition, the opportunity to release this series appeared for beginners in this market.
Manufacturers partners:
- GIGABYTE;
- Asus
- "Firing";
- MSI
- Gainward;
- Inno3D.
As expected, the set of chipsets for all cards without exception is the same. The only thing that can change for each individual partner is the appearance of the device and the cooling system. Experts once again advise stopping at renowned manufacturers (the first four on the list), but judging by user reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710, other partners are no worse.
Performance and Tests
In benchmarks, the card proved to be a solid middle peasant, but synthetic tests are only one side of the coin. The real test for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 are modern games and applications. This indicator is primarily of interest to gamers and fans to load the inside of the computer with “Photoshop” and streams.
The performance of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 card was tested at maximum graphics settings with a high level of smoothing and a full set of foreign particles of the landscape, that is, with all shaders. In total, the installation can be called maximum, but not ultra.
Average frames per second (FPS):
- “Crisis 3” - 5;
- Lara Croft (2014) - 6;
- Alien Isolation - 11;
- “Metro 2033” - 6;
- Hitman Absolution - 5;
- Bioshock Infinite - 9;
- Battlefield 4-6.
As you can see from the FPS, the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 is far from a gaming card. Yes, it can be overclocked and quite comfortable playing some games at the minimum settings, but serious performance is not discussed here at all.
findings
The video card is perfect for those who are not interested in the modern gaming world. Office applications and ordinary graphic editors - this is what she can do perfectly. Well, for those who expect to get good on her from streams or play serious toys, it is better to pass by and look towards models with the Ti prefix.
In the budget segment, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti is still dominant, so those who want to save money, pay attention to this particular model, and our object will not pull something serious, alas, even if you properly disperse it.
Despite such modest characteristics, the GT 710 series justifies its price (about 3,000 rubles) and will perfectly serve in the system unit of some office worker or a lowly home user.