NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FirePro D300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)
AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jan 2014
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
162.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1280
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Pitcairn
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
5.1
