AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670 +190%

2.634 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1344

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GK104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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