NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Mar 2016

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

Shading Units

4096

8

TMUs

256

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Capsaicin

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Curie

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

596 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

6.0

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