NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon HD 7730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 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 47W)

AMD Radeon HD 7730 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 7730

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

May 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Cape Verde

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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