NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 55W)

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (21.34GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 2011

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

667 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV730

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

146 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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