AMD Radeon R8 M445DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M445DX and NVIDIA GeForce 800A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 738 MHz
14.7x more pipelines: 704 vs 48
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 181 vs 165
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 797 vs 477

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 738 MHz
Pipelines	704 vs 48
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	181 vs 165
PassMark - G3D Mark	797 vs 477

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

165

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

797

477

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1427
PassMark - G2D Mark	181	165
PassMark - G3D Mark	797	477
Geekbench - OpenCL	21666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Meso	GF119
Launch date	15 May 2016	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	984	986
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1021 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	738 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	704	48
Transistor count	3,100 million	292 million
Floating-point performance		141.7 gflops
Texture fill rate		5.904 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	128 + 64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	DDR4 / DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz