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).
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 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce 945A | ATI FirePro M7740 |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell | TeraScale |
Code name | GM108 | M97 |
Launch date | 13 March 2015 | 4 August 2009 |
Place in performance rating | 604 | 601 |
Type | Desktop | Mobile workstation |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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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 |