GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    217%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 745 OEM

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 7850

Around 117% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850

The Radeon HD 7850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon HD 7850
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-300-A2)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders384vs1024
Compute Units3vs16
Core clock1033 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon HD 7850
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon HD 7850
TDP55 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    3140
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)