NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 375W)
AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Unknown
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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250 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1536
8
TMUs
96
4
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Antilles
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
389 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
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3.0
Shader Model
5.0
