NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, 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

2262 points
595% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
436% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points
302% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6443 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
389% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
362% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
460% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
389% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
374% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
486% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
679% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
55 W
163% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
299% significantly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
394% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
333% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
333% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
250% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 745 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 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 970 at 145 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 GTX 970 is better than the GeForce GTX 745.

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