GeForce 615 vs GeForce 945A

GeForce 615
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce 615
GeForce 945A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 945A

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 615

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 945A

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 945A

HWBench recommends GeForce 945A

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 615GeForce 945A
GPU NameGF108 ()vsGM108 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors585 millionvsunknown
Shaders48vs384
Compute Units1vs3
Core clock660 MHzvs1072 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 615GeForce 945A
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 615GeForce 945A
TDP49 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date15 May 2012vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 615
    1.32 GP/s
  • GeForce 945A
    8.58 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 615
    5.28 GT/s
  • GeForce 945A
    25.73 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 615
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 945A
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 615
    126.72 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 945A
    823.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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