GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs Radeon R7 350

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking600not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGM107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date6 July 2016 (8 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 cores512384
Core clock speed800 MHz1033 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt55 Watt
Texture fill rate25.6024.79
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPS0.7933 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3224

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 July 2016 18 February 2014
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB

R7 350 has an age advantage of 2 years.

GTX 745 OEM, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 350 and GeForce GTX 745 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 350
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