NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 4850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 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 110W)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 4850

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2008

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

993 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/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

10.00 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

110W

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

RV770

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

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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