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.

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

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: 472 vs 181
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2139 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	472 vs 181
PassMark - G3D Mark	2139 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

472

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

797

2139

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	472
PassMark - G3D Mark	797	2139
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	1002	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