AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

1993 points
513% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points
563% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points
486% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points
459% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points
528% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points
714% 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

224 GB/s
677% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W
55 W
54% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s
218% significantly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s
483% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
266% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
266% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586
368th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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

Radeon RX 5500M vs GeForce GTX 745 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500M 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 Radeon RX 5500M at 85 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 Radeon RX 5500M is better than the GeForce GTX 745.

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