GeForce GT 745A vs Radeon E8860
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 745A |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon E8860 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon E8860
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 745A | | Radeon E8860 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (N14P-LP) | vs | Venus (Adelaar) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 837 MHz | vs | 575 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 745A | | Radeon E8860 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 745A | | Radeon E8860 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 37 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Aug 2013 | vs | 25 Jan 2014 |
GeForce GT 745A
6.70 GP/s
Radeon E8860
10.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 745A
26.78 GT/s
Radeon E8860
25.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 745A
28.80 GB/s
Radeon E8860
72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 745A
642.80 GFLOPs
Radeon E8860
800.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better