NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, 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
343 points
5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
8 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
37.75 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points
6914 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
7146 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
7117 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
6822 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
6359 points
15% 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
48.06 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
10 W
450% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
24.5 Gigapixels/s
48% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate
24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
49% significantly more shading units
256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
49% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

366th of 586
362nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

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 MX230 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce MX230 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 745 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 745 at 55 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 MX230 over the GeForce GTX 745.

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