Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 745 OEM
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units8vs3
Core clock300 MHzvs1033 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 745 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better