NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 85W)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jan 2012
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
1250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
768
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
85W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Tahiti
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
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
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-
-
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
