GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs GTX 980 SLI Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking114not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.16no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIGM107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (9 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 cores4096384
Core clock speed1126 MHz1033 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors10400 Million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt55 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 amount2x 8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA+5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 September 2015 18 February 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 55 Watt

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year.

GTX 745 OEM, on the other hand, has 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 745 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 745 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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