AMD Radeon R8 M445DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M445DX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 83% higher pipelines: 704 vs 384
  • 3.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 21666 vs 6117
  • Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2636 vs 1813
  • Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2636 vs 1813
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 3309
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 3309
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 May 2016 vs 18 February 2014
Pipelines 704 vs 384
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 21666 vs 6117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2636 vs 1813
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2636 vs 1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 3309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2918 vs 1427
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2918 vs 1427
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 471 vs 181
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2138 vs 797
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1033 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2918 vs 1427
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2918 vs 1427
PassMark - G2D Mark 471 vs 181
PassMark - G3D Mark 2138 vs 797

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1427
2918
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1427
2918
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
181
471
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
797
2138
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
21666
6117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2636
1813
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2636
1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3309
Name AMD Radeon R8 M445DX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1427 2918
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1427 2918
PassMark - G2D Mark 181 471
PassMark - G3D Mark 797 2138
Geekbench - OpenCL 21666 6117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2636 1813
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2636 1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 24.117
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 335.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.096
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 97.126
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 655

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell
Code name Meso GM107
Launch date 15 May 2016 18 February 2014
Place in performance rating 1001 1004
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1021 MHz
Core clock speed 780 MHz 1033 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 704 384
Transistor count 3,100 million 1,870 million
Floating-point performance 793.3 gflops
Texture fill rate 24.79 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 55 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 128 + 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type DDR4 / DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz