AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce 945M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1085 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 27 October 2015
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945M

4x more pipelines: 512 vs 128
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 244
4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2108 vs 506
2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8099 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	512 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	255 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	2108 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	8099 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

255

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

2108

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

8099

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	255
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	2108
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	8099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		380.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		31.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3343

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM107
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	27 October 2015
Place in performance rating	949	952
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1085 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	128	512
Transistor count	4500 million	1,870 million
Core clock speed		1029 MHz
Floating-point performance		953.9 gflops
Texture fill rate		29.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus