NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 4890

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 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 190W)

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.8GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 4890

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 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

975 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

124.8GB/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

13.60 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

272.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

190W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV790

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

282 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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