NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 745M sales 1 April 2013. This is Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of DDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 45 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.93 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of GeForce GT 745M's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
1.89
Architecture
Kepler
GPU code name
N14P-LP/GS
Market segment
Laptop
Release date
1 April 2013
Technical specs
GeForce GT 745M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 745M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GT 745M'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 x16
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 745M: 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, GDDR5
Standard memory configuration
DDR3/GDDR5
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 745M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
HDMI
+
HDCP content protection
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GT 745M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
Optimus
+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GT 745M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 API
Shader Model
5.1
OpenCL
1.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
CUDA
+
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GT 745M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
3.93
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
10147
3DMark Fire Strike Score
1443
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
1531
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
2249
3DMark Vantage Performance
9045
Passmark
998
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GT 745M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
19 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GT 745M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GT 745M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
100 %
GeForce GT 745MAMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GT 745M from AMD is Radeon HD 7690M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our rating.