NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 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

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 610 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 384 vs 240
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 642.8 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 189 Watt
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1241 vs 1223
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 313 vs 99
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19809 vs 18229

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2013 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 610 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 240
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 189 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1241 vs 1223
PassMark - G2D Mark	313 vs 99
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809 vs 18229

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Around 82% higher texture fill rate: 48.8 GTexel / s vs 26.78 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	48.8 GTexel / s vs 26.78 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1241

1223

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

313

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19809

18229

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
PassMark - G3D Mark	1241	1223
PassMark - G2D Mark	313	99
Geekbench - OpenCL	19809	18229
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)		3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3319

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 745A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GK107	GT200B
Launch date	26 August 2013	11 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1199	1201
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,499
Price now		$178.89
Value for money (0-100)		8.02
Technical info
Core clock speed	837 MHz	610 MHz
Floating-point performance	642.8 gflops	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	240
Texture fill rate	26.78 GTexel / s	48.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	189 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3