NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5450 PCI 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 5.328GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

80 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 25W)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2010

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

80

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Cedar

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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