NVIDIA GeForce 945A
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
NVIDIA GeForce 945A
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

489
Place in performance rating
473
Maxwell
Architecture
Fermi
GM108
Code name
GF104
Desktop
Type
Laptop
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
1 November 2010 (11 years ago)
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Price now
$78
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Value for money
0.63
GM108
GPU code name
N11E-GT
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
288
1072 MHz
Core clock speed
535 MHz
1189 MHz
Boost Clock
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Transistor count
1,950 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
28.54
Texture fill rate
19.7 billion/sec
903.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
616.3 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
288
1189 MHz
Boost clock speed
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Number of transistors
1,950 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
5012 MHz
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
40.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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CUDA
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 API
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 945A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 945A
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
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

More pipelines (384 vs 288)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 75 Watt)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

0.45% faster in synthetic tests

More maximum RAM amount (1536 MB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (60.0 GB/s vs 40.1 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 945A or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M .

NVIDIA GeForce 945A versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 945A
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