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** GREAT VALUE MULTIMEDIA FROM NVIDIA: GT 710 IS HERE! **

Gibbo said:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 is great for those building an entry level gaming PC to play games such a mindcraft or some of the older classic titles such as Command & Conquer, Quake 3 etc.
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Mindcraft?

Same typo on the main site page for this. :)
 
Dave2150 said:
No way are these going in new PC's - Skylake's IGPU is much faster than these.
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Well I have a GT 730 in a brand new Skylake HTPC. I tried running with the IGPU for about 3 months before giving up. The Intel drivers just aren't as polished; little visual and sound glitches which won't show up on any benchmark.
 
IT Troll said:
Well I have a GT 730 in a brand new Skylake HTPC. I tried running with the IGPU for about 3 months before giving up. The Intel drivers just aren't as polished; little visual and sound glitches which won't show up on any benchmark.
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The 730's in fairness are nearly twice the performance of the 710, due to twice the amound of cuda cores and double the memory bandwidth, 128-bit VS 64-bit so at £50 area the 730's are great buys, next step is really 750Ti around £90 which are capable cards but of course bigger.
 
True, but for typical HTPC duties the 710-730 are much of muchness. However if you are looking for demanding video post processing or some light gaming then I would say the 750 is the minimum.

But in that case it would be worth holding out for the rumored 930 to see how that compares. A TDP of just 15W is going to be ideal for the living room.
 
IT Troll said:
True, but for typical HTPC duties the 710-730 are much of muchness. However if you are looking for demanding video post processing or some light gaming then I would say the 750 is the minimum.

But in that case it would be worth holding out for the rumored 930 to see how that compares. A TDP of just 15W is going to be ideal for the living room.
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Agreed, this also falls in line with what NVIDIA recommend. 750 and above is gaming, below is Multimedia. :)
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The GTX750 has support for H265 too which the cheaper cards lack.
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Hopefully the GT 930 will deliver this in a low profile, bus powered, passive form. It would be really nice if it also had HDMI 2.0, however this is doubtful as they will probably re-use first generation Maxwell GPUs. Maybe the GT 940 will have it all...
 
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Gibbo - any idea when stock of these will arrive?, as worth trying one of these in a picky old core2 machine I still have that only takes low profile cards.

Armageus said:
How come these have higher clocks than the GT720s (whilst having the same 192 cores and same speed DDR3 memory)?
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As above, any clue what the deal is with GT710 vs GT720? (e.g. is GT720 about to be phased out or revised?)
 
Gibbo said:
NVIDIA still shift such cards in their thousands per month I believe, someone is buying them for sure. :)
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The buyer who works for the Purple Shirters most likely. :o

A bit of shame they didn't ship these with Maxwell they have been worth a look for a mid range media PC.
 
They all have their place.

GT710 is for people that just want pure connectivity or decoding or whatever.

GT730 is fine for people who want to play things like Minecraft, Farming Simulator, Sims 3, DOTA2, that kind of thing.

GTX750 is "mainstream" minimum - FPS, open world titles, etc.
 
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