Radeon R9 280 vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 200W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2004
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
-
112
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
25W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV43
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
3.0