Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?
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General gaming and workstation score
Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes
Randomly generated noise sphere test
Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering
Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test
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Cycles Render (Samples per minute)
CUDA compute benchmark
Metal compute benchmark
OpenCL compute benchmark
Vulkan compute benchmark
Metal compute benchmark
OpenCL compute benchmark
Vulkan compute benchmark
Number of parallel lines to the memory chips
Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory
Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU
Number of pixels that can be rendered per second
Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second
Number of processors dedicated to shader processing
Number of processors dedicated to applying textures
Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering
Ranking in the hardwareDB database
The official date of release of this chip
The type of memory used by this chip
Maximum version of DirectX supported
Maximum version of OpenGL supported
For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 745 in our tests.
In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.
In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce GTX 745.
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