NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
256% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
215% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6443 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
289% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
55 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
181% significantly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
134% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
66% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
66% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
369th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 745 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 745.

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