AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 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

825 points
153% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points
140% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

21032 points
657% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points
234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23476 points
745% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points
319% 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

112 GB/s
288% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
55 W
45% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s
23% slightly higher pixel rate
16.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s
229% significantly higher texture rate
24.79 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
166% significantly 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

275th of 586
368th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
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

Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 745 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 560 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 Radeon RX 560 at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 560 is faster than the GeForce GTX 745.

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