NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 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 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • Around 72% better floating-point performance: 642.8 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1097 vs 576
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 179 vs 153
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3352 vs 1876
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3352 vs 1876
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 3 March 2009
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Floating-point performance 642.8 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1097 vs 576
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 vs 153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 vs 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 vs 1876

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1463 MHz vs 837 MHz
  • Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 38 billion / sec vs 26.78 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 1463 MHz vs 837 MHz
Texture fill rate 38 billion / sec vs 26.78 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1097
576
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
179
153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
1876
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1097 576
PassMark - G2D Mark 179 153
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 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2255
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 1876
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G92
Launch date 1 April 2013 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1273 1275
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 837 MHz 1463 MHz
Floating-point performance 642.8 gflops 374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 128
Texture fill rate 26.78 GTexel / s 38 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Gigaflops 562

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
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
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-IV
Laptop size medium sized large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 61 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 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
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD
SLI