AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 945M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
488
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Maxwell
Cayman
Code name
GM107
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
12 March 2015 (6 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
$163
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Value for money
4.20
Cayman
GPU code name
GM107
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
640
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Core clock speed
928 MHz
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Boost Clock
1020 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
1,870 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
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Texture fill rate
40.80
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Floating-point performance
953.9 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
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Boost clock speed
1045 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
1,870 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
medium sized
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
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GameWorks
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 945M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce 945M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $163)

More pipelines (1536 vs 640)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 945M

9.84% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce 945M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 945M .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce 945M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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