AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. 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 GTX 745 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1429 vs 655

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 18 February 2014
Pipelines	512 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429 vs 655

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1429

655

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429	655
PassMark - G3D Mark		2135
PassMark - G2D Mark		473
Geekbench - OpenCL		6113
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2918
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2918
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM107
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	18 February 2014
Place in performance rating	979	980
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	384
Core clock speed		1033 MHz
Floating-point performance		793.3 gflops
Texture fill rate		24.79 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		55 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3