NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 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

325 points
Identical
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
8 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
48.42 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
5882 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6193 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5469 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
6264 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
5609 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
36% slightly lower TDP
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
17.57 Gigapixels/s
6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
35.14 Gigatexels/s
41% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
512
33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
32
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

369th of 586
367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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 745 vs GeForce 940M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 940M beats the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 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 940M over the GeForce GTX 745.

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