NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs 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
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
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
158.4 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
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
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
6.3
