NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 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
13% slightly better overall score
287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
7 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
155.79 points
188% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
5204 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
7697 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
8639 points
211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
11800 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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
115.2 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
81% significantly lower TDP
100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
24.67 Gigapixels/s
49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
98.69 Gigatexels/s
298% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
1536
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
128
433% 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
386th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2013 July

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 Quadro K5100M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 745 beats the Quadro K5100M in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the Quadro K5100M at 100 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 GTX 745 over the Quadro K5100M.

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