NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI FirePro M7740

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and ATI FirePro M7740 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

ATI FirePro M7740

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 36% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
Around 9% better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 832.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 60 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 415
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 665

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 4 August 2009
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops vs 832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 60 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 415
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 665

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7740

Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 3384 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Pipelines	640 vs 384
Memory clock speed	3384 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI FirePro M7740

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

415

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

665

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FirePro M7740
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	415
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI FirePro M7740
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM108	M97
Launch date	13 March 2015	4 August 2009
Place in performance rating	603	600
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops	832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	20.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count		826 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	54.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3384 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0