NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M and NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 26.78 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 384 vs 64
  • 4x better floating-point performance: 642.8 gflops vs 160 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1097 vs 382
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 179 vs 159
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3352 vs 1989
  • Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3352 vs 1989
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 1 November 2007
Core clock speed 837 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 26.78 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 64
Floating-point performance 642.8 gflops vs 160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1097 vs 382
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 vs 159
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 vs 1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 vs 1989

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1097
382
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
179
159
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
1989
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark 1097 382
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 159
Geekbench - OpenCL 3468
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.489
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 202.905
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.66
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 8.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.323
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2255
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 1989
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2255
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 1989
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G92
Launch date 1 April 2013 1 November 2007
Place in performance rating 1273 1276
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 837 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 642.8 gflops 160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 64
Texture fill rate 26.78 GTexel / s 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 754 million
CUDA cores 64

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-HE
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0