NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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

NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
2.7x better floating-point performance: 642.8 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1238 vs 479
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 305 vs 141
8.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19809 vs 2229

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 1 October 2012
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238 vs 479
PassMark - G2D Mark	305 vs 141
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809 vs 2229

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1238

479

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

305

141

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19809

2229

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1238	479
PassMark - G2D Mark	305	141
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809	2229
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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		999
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2333
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3257
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3257

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK107	GF117
Launch date	26 August 2013	1 October 2012
Place in performance rating	1211	1213
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	837 MHz
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops	240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	585 million
CUDA cores		96
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus