GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking392not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameno dataGM107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateApril 2018 (6 years ago)18 February 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768384
Core clock speed1366 MHz1033 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data55 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.79
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7933 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount3 MB4 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1752 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth84 GB/s28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 745 OEM, on the other hand, has a 136433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile and GeForce GTX 745 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 745 OEM is a desktop one.


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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
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