NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 20% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 700 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1238 vs 1092
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 305 vs 223
• Around 52% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 12.446 vs 8.17
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.883 vs 0.86

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

• Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 26.78 GTexel / s
• 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
• Around 74% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 642.8 gflops
• 2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 585.971 vs 278.161
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 20.108 vs 14.778
• 3.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 98.606 vs 25.74

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1238 1092
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	305 223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.446 8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	278.161 585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.883 0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	14.778 20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	25.74 98.606

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