NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FirePro R5000

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 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 R5000 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Pitcairn

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

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

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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