NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 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 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2007

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

1126 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

106W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV670

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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