AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 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

297 points
325 points
9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
5 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

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

72 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s
16.53 Gigapixels/s
11% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s
19% slightly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
33% slightly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
33% slightly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

380th of 586
367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
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

4.3
4.6

Radeon R7 450 vs GeForce GTX 745 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 745 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 450 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the Radeon R7 450 at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 745 is faster than the Radeon R7 450.

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