NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

334 points

4562 points

1265% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

112 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

57 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

79 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

44 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points

2352.59 points

4250% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points

98709 points

1432% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points

92420 points

1366% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points

71210 points

1069% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points

84300 points

1267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points

82804 points

1401% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

336 GB/s

1066% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W

45% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

313% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

589% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

3840

900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

370th of 597

110th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 745 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 745.