NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo 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 350W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Apr 2016
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR
Memory Type
HBM
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
4096
8
TMUs
256
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
350W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Capsaicin
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Capsaicin XT
Curie
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
6.0
