NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.000GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

Lower TDP (25W vs 30W)

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

40 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 2008

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

40

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV620

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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