AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points
82% significantly better overall score
325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
54.07 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6300 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6087 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points
285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2777 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6165 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5513 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
22% slightly lower TDP
55 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
16.53 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
158% significantly 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

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th 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

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 745 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 745 at 55 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 8 over the GeForce GTX 745.

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