NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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
2615 points
704% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
64 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
32 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
45 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
25 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
1161.74 points
2048% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points
58544 points
808% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
55123 points
774% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
47251 points
676% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
51045 points
727% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
53105 points
863% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
192 GB/s
566% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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
33.82 Gigapixels/s
104% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
67.65 Gigatexels/s
172% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
2048
433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
64
166% 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

366th of 586
170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR6

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 RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 745 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 745.

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