NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 (2GB)

[Guest]

Im considering buying a Lenovo desktop with an Quad i7 CPU 3.6GHZ-4GHZ, it is accompanied by a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, 2GB graphics card. I'm not going to be doing any heavy gaming, just Minecraft. I'm going to be game capturing my xbox games and rendering/editing videos in sony vegas. How would you rate this card low end, mid, or high end? How much FPS will it achieve in games like minecraft, and will these specs be good for video editing? I am planning to put an SSD and maybe 16GB ram in it because I will be running lots of background apps, chrome office etc. Here is the PC: http://

 

[Bossyfins]

ITs ok, but I recommend you make your own. But if you decide to buy it, it is a good deal. MC is more CPU intensive, but it becomes GPU intensive when you use Shaders. However, simple TPs and what not will be ok. You should be above 50+fps

 

[cub_fanatic]

right on the border of low end and mid-range. It has 384 cuda cores which puts it well below the GTX 750ti and its 640 cuda cores and the 750ti is regarded as one of the better mid-range cards out at the moment. Typically, Nvidia doesn't use the GTX moniker to describe low end cards, but I would put it in the "upper-low-end" class.

EDIT: this video shows the GTX 745 playing minecraft. NO info on it, but it appears to be in 1080p (though the video isn't). No info on CPU either but your i7 is obviously capable. Warning, mute this if you don't like crappy music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW8-3aJkvJo

 

[Shneiky]

Sony Vegas uses OpenCL and AMD Video cards are sometimes 5 times better than nVidia at OpenCL for the same price. nVidia does not concentrate on OpenCL because they have their CUDA. Consider getting an AMD video card, it will serve you better in SonyVegas.

 

[TechyInAZ]

My guess is that it's in between a GTX 750 and a GT 740, so it won't be that great. But it should run those games pretty well.

 

[Shneiky]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU13/588

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/977679

A benchie for GPU acceleration in Sony Vegas. The HD 7770 beats the GTX Titan, while costing almost 1/10th of the price. AMD dominates in Vegas.

 

[Guest]

Yea I see what you mean the cpu is pretty strong I wasn't planning to overclock so I didn't need a K cpu, I don't have a lot of time to be ordering parts and building a Pc atm so. I'll have a look around and find some alternatives at a similiar price but pcs that use amd graphics rather than nvidia would you guys mind checking them out when I find some in about 10 mins? Thanks Josh

 

[Guest]

Would this one be any better it has the same I7 has 16gb ram a 1tb SSHD and the graphics card is a Radeon R9 255 (2Gb)
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[Shneiky]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/syscon_int.php?prodid=FS-039-OG

overclockers let you specify components and they make it for you. It is cheaper and you get more for the money.

You can get 4790k, 16 GBs of RAM, SSD and an HDD, R7 265 and a nice quiet cooler for 1000 with VAT.

Those 100 extra get you a 500 MHz higher clocked processor, a video card with twice the potential and a SSD along with better power supply, quieter cooler. It is worth in my opinion. And you can also chose a case that you find appealing.

 

[RobCrezz]

Sony Vegas uses OpenCL and AMD Video cards are sometimes 5 times better than nVidia at OpenCL for the same price. nVidia does not concentrate on OpenCL because they have their CUDA. Consider getting an AMD video card, it will serve you better in SonyVegas.

Sony Vegas supports Cuda too...

 

[Shneiky]

It does, but the support is not that extensive. Vegas is OpenCL optimized.

 

[cub_fanatic]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU13/588

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/977679

A benchie for GPU acceleration in Sony Vegas. The HD 7770 beats the GTX Titan, while costing almost 1/10th of the price. AMD dominates in Vegas.

That's pretty interesting. It is almost like litecoin mining. I guess this particular app behaves in a similar way. I once read that CUDA cores are slower in these situations than AMD stream processors because AMD stream processors are 'simpler' and smaller so they are able to pack more ALUs (Arithmetic logic units) on the chip than Nvidia can (something to the order of 3x as many). This is why a comparable AMD card like the R9 280x was about 2.5x faster as the GTX 770 and why a 7870 was about even with the Titan. For this Vegas app, this is even more exaggerated for whatever reason.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Shneiky, I will look into that, But how is the performance Radeon R9 255? How does it compare to the Nvidia GTX 745 2gb? So Nvidia GTX 745 2gb vs Radeon R9 255 2gb? Would it be better than the GTX for video editing and Minecraft?

 

[Shneiky]

The reason is the same as why Adobe Premier runs better on CUDA. Optimization. While Adobe started with CUDA, Sony Vegas started with OpenCL. Premier is now being transitioning to OpenCL, but still many functions are not migrated/not optimized for OpenCL.

Also, AMD did not cut the floating point performance on their Radeons like nVidia did with their GTXs. The floating point precision of a 750 TI Maxwell for example is 1:32 ratio ( integer to float ). In a 650 TI Kepler it is 1:24. A Fermi 550 TI has a ratio of 1:12. The CGN architecture is consistent between 1:7 and and 1:12, thus giving AMD much larger performance in floating point calculations and thus in OpenCL. It is also because AMD did not cut out those logical units, that AMD has significantly higher power consumption.

 

[Shneiky]

The 265 is the superior card.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-14.html

Albeit it consumes double the electricity of the 750 TI. If I had the chance I would swap out my 650 TI for AMD card.

To answer your other question - neither R7 255, nor GTX 745 are purchasable cards. They come in pre-build systems. And hence, I can't find consistent benches on any of them.

 

[Guest]

Thanks I just realised this after searching to see how much the graphics cards costed to find they weren't listed Thanks for the help but one last question which prebuilt system would you go for:
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[Shneiky]

I would go for Erazer X310.

But I strongly recommend for you to reconsider and make your own prebuild system from overclockers.co.uk. It will cost you less, with better components inside. You just need to pick from their website what do you want inside and they will build it for you.

 

[Guest]

Ok then I will look into getting them to build a PC for me but if I do decide to buy from them what kind of configuration would you recommend for my needs? Im willing to pay roughly £800 if possible

 

[Shneiky]

I went to their configurator and chose OcUK Gamer Xi

Then I selected the following components.

BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
ASRock Z97 Pro3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Prolimatech 45 CPU Cooler - 92mm
TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01)
Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD
OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
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It is £899.24 inc VAT, which is the same price as the Lenovo, but it has 400 MHz higher clocked CPU, and it has Radeon 265 (1024 Stream Processors) instead of 255 (512 Stream Processors), which has double the power.