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NVIDIA GeForce 945M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 945M sales 8 April 2016. This is Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16.02 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 23 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 12.05 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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General info

Of GeForce 945M's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

294

Architecture

Maxwell

Code name

GM108

Type

Laptop

Release date

8 April 2016

Technical specs

GeForce 945M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 945M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

512

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

928 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1045 MHz

of 1771 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)

Transistor count

1,870 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

29.81

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

953.9 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce 945M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

medium sized

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 945M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Shared memory

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 945M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GPU Boost

Optimus

GameWorks

CUDA

GeForce Experience

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 945M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

OpenGL

4.5

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce 945M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

11.78

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

193684.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

19405.00

3DMark Fire Strike Score

2504.50

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

2850.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3309.50

3DMark Vantage Performance

13507.00

Passmark

1466

Mining hashrate

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce 945M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

107 Mh/s

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good GeForce 945M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.08

Games can run, %

At minimum settings

91.61

At recommended settings

67.42

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Fallout 4 (2015)

low / 720p

54.00

medium / 768p

33.00

high / 1080p

18.00

ultra / 1080p

15.00

The Witcher 3 (2015)

low / 768p

51.90

medium / 768p

30.60

high / 1080p

17.00

ultra / 1080p

9.30

Far Cry 4 (2014)

low / 768p

72.30

medium / 768p

53.00

high / 1080p

23.90

ultra / 1080p

19.10

Sims 4 (2014)

low / 768p

184.00

medium / 768p

101.10

high / 1080p

57.70

ultra / 1080p

45.50

Battlefield 4 (2013)

low / 768p

111.90

medium / 768p

78.30

high / 768p

54.40

ultra / 1080p

21.60

Crysis 3 (2013)

low / 768p

85.70

medium / 768p

50.40

high / 768p

33.90

ultra / 1080p

12.60

Tomb Raider (2013)

low / 768p

233.30

medium / 768p

117.60

high / 768p

68.00

ultra / 1080p

31.40

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

medium / 768p

50.00

high / 768p

48.00

ultra / 1080p

40.00

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce 945M performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

103.23 %

AMD Radeon R9 M370X

100.76 %

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

100.42 %

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

99.92 %

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

99.49 %

NVIDIA Quadro 4000

99.49 %

NVIDIA GRID M3-3020

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 945M from AMD is Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, which is slower by 1% and lower by 6 positions in our rating.