Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce GT 745A

Place in the ranking	746	530
Place by popularity	not in top-100	39
Power efficiency	6.78	11.56
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GK107	Cezanne
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	26 August 2013 (11 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 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 cores	384	448
Core clock speed	837 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	915 MHz	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	29.28	53.20
Floating-point processing power	0.7027 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	28

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	DDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	9−10 −144%	22 +144%
1440p	12−14 −133%	28 +133%
4K	8−9 −150%	20 +150%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.21	7.46
Recency	26 August 2013	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	45 Watt

GT 745A has 36.4% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 132.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 745A in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.