NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD FireStream 9270

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 160W)

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2008

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

160W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV770

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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