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    GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

    GeForce GTX 1050
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 25 Oct 2016
    GeForce GTX 1050
    GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
    Release date: 18 Feb 2014
    GeForce GTX 745 OEM

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

    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)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1050

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
    Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size132 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors3,300 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders640vs384
    Compute Units5vs3
    Core clock1354 MHzvs1033 MHz
    ROPs32vs16
    TMUs40vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1752 MHz
    7008 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    TDP75 wattsvs55 watts
    Release Date25 Oct 2016vs18 Feb 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050
      43.30 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
      16.50 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050
      54.20 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
      24.80 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1050
      112.10 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1050
      1733.10 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
      793.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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