NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jan 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

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

28

-

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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