NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points
1523% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
120 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
83 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
4185% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
1439% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6443 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
1430% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
1129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
1351% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
1463% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
1150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
55 W
209% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
416% significantly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
702% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
833% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
366% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce GTX 745 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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

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