NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 5730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5730 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 64W)

ATI Radeon HD 5730 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 5730

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2011

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

Shading Units

400

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

64W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Redwood

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

104 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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