GeForce GTX 960A vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

GeForce GTX 960A
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960A
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960A

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960A

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960AGeForce GTX 745 OEM
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs3
Core clock1029 MHzvs1033 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960AGeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960AGeForce GTX 745 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960A
    16.46 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960A
    41.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960A
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960A
    1317.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better