NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 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 6.400GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 2009

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

-

Shading Units

80

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV710

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

73 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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