NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand 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 60W)
AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jul 2013
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Sea 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
1024MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
480
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
624.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Turks
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Turks PRO
(215-0803002)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
118 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
