GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs Radeon R7 250X

GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    128%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

Around 28% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 250X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X

The Radeon R7 250X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-300-A2)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock1033 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon R7 250X
TDP55 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    3140
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)