NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 250W)
ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.68GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Nov 2008
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
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250 MHz
Memory Clock
995 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
63.68GB/s
Render Config
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Compute Units
10
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
800
8
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
R700
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
R700 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
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3.0
Shader Model
4.1
