Radeon R9 295X2 vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 500W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
25W
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
NV43
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
3.0