AMD Radeon R9 M375X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M375X and NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M375X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 3.8x more texture fill rate: 40.6 GTexel / s vs 10.6 billion / sec
  • 4.4x more pipelines: 640 vs 144
  • 3.8x better floating-point performance: 1,299 gflops vs 339.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1808 vs 811
  • Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 343 vs 203
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 3 September 2010
Texture fill rate 40.6 GTexel / s vs 10.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 640 vs 144
Floating-point performance 1,299 gflops vs 339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 3 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1808 vs 811
PassMark - G2D Mark 343 vs 203

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1125 MHz
  • Around 51% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12379 vs 8203
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3274 vs 1333
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3274 vs 1333
  • Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 2185
  • Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 2185
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 12379 vs 8203
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3274 vs 1333
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3274 vs 1333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 vs 2185
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 vs 2185

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M375X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1808
811
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
343
203
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
8203
12379
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1333
3274
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1333
3274
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2185
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2185
3350
Name AMD Radeon R9 M375X NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1808 811
PassMark - G2D Mark 343 203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3548
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3548
Geekbench - OpenCL 8203 12379
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1333 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1333 3274
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2185 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2185 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M375X NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi
Code name Tropo GF106
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 5 May 2015 3 September 2010
Place in performance rating 877 880
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1015 MHz
Compute units 10
Core clock speed 925 MHz 1180 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,299 gflops 339.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 640 144
Texture fill rate 40.6 GTexel / s 10.6 billion / sec
Transistor count 1,500 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 12 API
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed 1.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB / s 60.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI