NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FirePro S9150

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD FirePro S9150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 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 235W)

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)

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

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FirePro S9150

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 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

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

158.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.069 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

235W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Hawaii

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

Curie

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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