GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking226not rated
Place by popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency27.99no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGN20-P0GM107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed1238 MHz1033 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)55 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

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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 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-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 18 February 2014
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 55 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 745 OEM, on the other hand, has 9.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce GTX 745 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 745 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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