NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FirePro W4300

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD FirePro W4300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 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 50W)

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 2015

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Bonaire

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Curie

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

160 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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