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

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Jan 26th, 2016.
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.

As you would expect from the model number, the Nvidia GeForce GT 710 uses the firm's older Kepler architecture. It features 192 CUDA cores, with a GPU base clock of 954MHz. That compares very favourably against the previous gen GT 610's 48 CUDA cores in a GPU running at a base clock of 810MHz. A standard configuration GT 710 comes equipped with 2GB of DDR3 memory on board (1GB option) with a 64-bit memory interface, offering memory bandwidth of 14.4GB/s.

Nvidia's budget GT 710 offers more than just better speed compared to most integrated solutions, several key Nvidia technologies are supported such as PureVideo, PhysX, FXAA, and others. Of those probably only the PureVideo technology will be useful on such a low end card, its used to handle GPU powered video decoding, leaving your CPU for other tasks.

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.

The reference design GT 710 is a dual-width card thanks to its lumpen passive cooler, and is just under 6 inches long and 2.7 inches high. Power consumption is a modest 19W.

Only 19W. Great for HTPC's.
Not sure how good "10x IGP" is but wait for reviews for real-world performance.

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