NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 745M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +304%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 745M

0.643 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GT 745M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1344

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.696 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.78 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

642.8 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GK107

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N14P-LP

Kepler

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.1

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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