NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2010

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

228W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Cypress

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

334 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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