Love those low end comparisions. But i will never understand why people buy an 710 if they can easily buy a 1030 GDDR5 for nearly the same amount of money (at least here in germany). Sure a 1030 is even a low spec card, but you can actually play older games on it.
lol not sure if you're being sarcastic or serious but just incase, do yourself a favor and stay away from the 710 and go for the 730. Huge difference in performance.
@@jims_junk Still going 730, rather than 710. But admittedly I was surprised of how well the 710 -5 model did in older games. If it can play GTA 5 like that, then it should be able to handle anything from 2004 to 2008
Do not get the GT 710 one (cheap sure) but more media player then gaming, its terrible. GT 730 GDDR5 one is far better, of course someone will always complain even about that one, with some games. I don't use Windows though, and War Thunder for the 730 one is perfectly fine for me.
If a GT710 suffers from low bandwidth at 12.8GB/s, I wonder how bandwidth constrained the Switch is. The Switch is over twice as fast as the GT710 DDR3, and also has basically double the bandwidth too. But then again Switch's bandwidth needs to be shared between the CPU and GPU, while the 710 DDR3 gets all the bandwidth for itself.
I upgraded from an Phenom 965 on a AM3 Motherboard to an FX8350. They were excellent value for the money for keeping your existing socket a good while longer. There is another video that shows how to properly milk the most out of your fx by overclocking the bus and ram as a priority.
tbh i5 6500 is still not that bad for "entry level gaming" - i could even play tarkov on it paired with gtx 1060 on 50-60 fps on most maps (excluding streets and lighthouse of course)
most laptops these days don't use socketed cpu's, they're soldered to the board. If however yours isn't, give it a shot. Make sure the board supports it first, also cooling might be an issue.
I didn’t know there was a GDDR5 version! I just thought the 1GiB and 2GiB versions launched later when Pascal came out. These cards are used in the xapple xBook G5 laptop
your videos are already so goood thank you, some top million subscribers hardware reviewers won't even show a frametime graph. my only critic is your charts are not easy to read
Hi, played with the idea of building lan party machines with low end 710 for some years now. I was gifted 4 optiplex 9020sff's, one for parts, the other 3 pristine, gathered 5 more. And decided to go for the 1030 gddr5 version, they aren't much more expensive, they have more oomph than any 710. They have the benefit to push even demanding lan games like UT3. I still have a few 710s ddr3 left from the project start left over. Gotta get rid of those. Maybe the 730s are for your workload better suited.
Curious. My first card was a GT 730 2GB DDR3 (the Kepler 384 core SKU), and I carefully weight my options between the 2GB DDR3 and 1GB GDDR5. I may have concluded incorrectly, but I personally believed that an extra GB of memory would be more useful, and that even low end games I was interested in would have not benefitted from the faster, half capacity memory. Actually held up pretty well, until I was able to afford to build a PC of my own with a GTX 960 4GB.
This also applies to the GT1030. The DDR4 card is so crippled while the GDDR5 is a decent Low Cost Solution for RU-vid and E-Sports. My daughter still uses a GT1030 GDDR5 and plays StarStable and other "Girl Games". Every OEM should be enforced to clearly mark the RAM Type and other cost savings on the box and on the silk screen.
0:29 you did not install the other one right. It should be x8 4.0 @ x8 4.0. The second one represents the gold lanes of the PCI lanes of the card - thus affecting the performance of the card.
@Cyrillium You can't always go by that. I've had plenty of times where gpuz says one thing but WMIC or device manager showed the real info. I'm guessing that's probably whats happening here.
Sure, the GDDR5 is better and you can game on older titles, (Minus GTA IV, that never ran well ANYWHERE you look.) but I would prefer a Low Profile AMD Radeon Card instead.
7:39 yeah obviously you're testing games that are too much for this little card. I'd LOVE to see you test stuff like the eXoDOS 6 emulation pack, as well as EARLY 2000s games like Battlefield Vietnam, Unreal Tournament 2003 (or is it 4?), Age of Empires, F.E.A.R., FarCry 2, some playstation X emulation, that sort of era of games. If I could buy both of these cards for $10 and shipping, that's what I'd use them for.
@mattparker9726 I don't understand, he did show unreal tournament, fallout, nfs, portal 2, but also showed harder to render games. The point isn't to make the card look like its gold but to show how it handles in all sorts of situations. We all know the 710 is a low end card but its interesting to see how it does in larger games. If all he did was simple games like age of empires then other people would complain and say well what about larger harder to run games. If you're reviewing a car thats slow, you don't say well racing it down hill against a turtle it flew!
2:21 this is the usecase I most expect to see, the games that this card CAN run reasonably well in the 3, it runs them NUCH more playably with the 5. Great content, subscribed!
It’s just ddr3, not gddr3. The 730 only comes in ddr3 and gddr5 versions Not to be annoying, but there is a difference Nvidia stopped making gddr3 cards….I want to say 400 series but I could be wrong
I have a R7 240 2gb GDDR5 version and I'm glad how it performed well in most games that I've played. For comparison, the GDDR5 version in GTA4 run smoother and felt better than the DDR3 in this video
