NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon HD 6450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6450 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 25W)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 6450

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2011

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

18W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Caicos

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

67 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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