NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, 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
621 points
91% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
30 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
18 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
14 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
184.30 points
240% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points
11969 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
7421 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
14780 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
14358 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
6454 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
15314 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
16269 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
209% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
27.44 Gigapixels/s
66% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
109.8 Gigatexels/s
342% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
1344
250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
112
366% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
32
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 586
308th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 745 vs GeForce GTX 670 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 670 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 670 at 170 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 670 is faster than the GeForce GTX 745.

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