AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 W8100 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 220W)

Score

FirePro W8100

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Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Aug 2004

FirePro

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV43

Hawaii GL40

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

Board Design

220W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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