NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and ATI Radeon HD 4860 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: 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

ATI Radeon HD 4860

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 26.78 GTexel / s vs 22.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 130 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 9 September 2009
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s vs 22.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4860

Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
Around 39% better floating-point performance: 896.0 gflops vs 642.8 gflops
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Pipelines	640 vs 384
Floating-point performance	896.0 gflops vs 642.8 gflops
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4860

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	ATI Radeon HD 4860
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238
PassMark - G2D Mark	305
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	278.161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	25.74
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	ATI Radeon HD 4860
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK107	RV790
Launch date	26 August 2013	9 September 2009
Place in performance rating	1221	1224
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	837 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops	896.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s	22.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	959 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5