NVIDIA GeForce 945A
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M360
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M360

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

489
Place in performance rating
493
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GM108
Code name
Tropo
Desktop
Type
Desktop
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
5 May 2015 (6 years ago)
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Price now
$160
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Value for money
4.88
GM108
GPU code name
Tropo
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
512
1072 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1189 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
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Transistor count
1,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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28.54
Texture fill rate
29.60
903.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
947.2 gflops
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Compute units
8
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1189 MHz
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
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Number of transistors
1,500 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Bus support
PCIe 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 NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
5012 MHz
Memory clock speed
1125 MHz
40.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
1

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360 is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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PowerTune
+
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
+
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Enduro
-
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DualGraphics
1
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Switchable graphics
1

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
Not Listed
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 945A and AMD Radeon R9 M360 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 NVIDIA GeForce 945A or AMD Radeon R9 M360 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon R9 M360
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon R9 M360
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
AMD Radeon R9 M360
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 NVIDIA GeForce 945A

0.24% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M360

More pipelines (512 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 40.1 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 945A or AMD Radeon R9 M360?

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

NVIDIA GeForce 945A versus AMD Radeon R9 M360 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 945A
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