AMD FirePro W5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

FirePro W5000

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2004

FirePro

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

NV43

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 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

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