NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2012

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Tahiti

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

352 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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