Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 3650 vs GeForce GT 710
AMD
Radeon HD 3650
256 Mb GDDR3
Released 20 Jan 2008
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 710
2048 Mb DDR3
Released 27 Mar 2014
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 3650
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 710
- 46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3650 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GT 710
Based on theoretical specifications.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 3650 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV635 (RV635 PRO) | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 135 mm² | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 378 million | unknown |
| Shaders | 120 | 192 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 1 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | 954 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | 16 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 3650 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3650 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Jan 2008 | 27 Mar 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 36502.90 GP/s
- GeForce GT 7103.82 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 36505.80 GT/s
- GeForce GT 71015.26 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 365025.60 GB/s
- GeForce GT 71014.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 3650174.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 710366.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better