NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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

2457 points
655% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points
598% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points
428% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6443 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points
425% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points
478% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points
511% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points
425% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
491% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
547% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
567% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
55 W
118% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s
396% significantly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s
451% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
233% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
233% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586
366th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July
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

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce GTX 745 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 6GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 745.

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