GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GT 745A

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GT 745A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 26 Aug 2013
GeForce GT 745A

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 745A

47 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GT 745A
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGK107 (N14P-LP)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders1280vs384
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1404 MHzvs837 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GT 745A
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GT 745A
TDP80 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs26 Aug 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 745A
    6.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 745A
    26.78 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 745A
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 745A
    642.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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