MSI GeForce GT 710 1GB LP vs GT 710 2GB GDDR5

Pixel fillrate number determines how many pixels a graphics card can draw on screen and off screen. Higher numbers allow cards to support higher display resolutions and frame rates. There are two factors that affect the maximum theoretical pixel fillrate. These are the number of ROPs and graphics frequency. Since both characteristics are equal between GPUs, their pixel fillrate is also identical.

Two main factors, that influence the maximum texture fillrate, are the number of TMUs and graphics frequency. Because both models have the same number of Texture Mapping Units and the same graphics clock speed, their texture fillrate is equal.

Maximum Single Precision performance illustrates how many single-precision floating point operations the graphics card can execute per second. This performance is expressed in billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second, or GFLOPS. Since FP calculations are performed by shaders, stream processors or CUDA cores, the performance is directly proportional to their number. It also depends on the processor clock speed. These two graphics cards have the same single-precision performance.

To speed up processing, the graphics cards store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the GPU to run at higher screen resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. The bandwidth is dependent on memory type, speed, and width of memory interface. Specifically, higher memory bandwidth of the MSI GeForce GT 710 2GB GDDR5 is a direct result of better and higher clocked memory.