NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs Intel Iris Graphics 5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and Intel Iris Graphics 5100 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Intel Iris Graphics 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
4.2x more core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 200 MHz
9.6x more pipelines: 384 vs 40
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1238 vs 736
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 305 vs 267
4.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19809 vs 4030

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 27 May 2013
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 40
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238 vs 736
PassMark - G2D Mark	305 vs 267
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809 vs 4030

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Graphics 5100

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 28 nm
Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 33 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: Intel Iris Graphics 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1238

736

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

305

267

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19809

4030

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	Intel Iris Graphics 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238	736
PassMark - G2D Mark	305	267
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809	4030
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 - Manhattan (Frames)		1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1668

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	Intel Iris Graphics 5100
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Generation 7.5
Code name	GK107	Haswell GT3
Launch date	26 August 2013	27 May 2013
Place in performance rating	1203	1205
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	837 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	22 nm
Pipelines	384	40
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1,300 million
Boost clock speed		1200 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		1
Technologies
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