AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 8

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1085 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 27 October 2015
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		2109
PassMark - G2D Mark		240
Geekbench - OpenCL		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 8	NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM107
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	27 October 2015
Place in performance rating	949	951
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1085 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	512
Core clock speed		1029 MHz
Floating-point performance		953.9 gflops
Texture fill rate		29.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
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