NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R7 250E

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R7 250E

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 55W)

AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R7 250E

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Cape Verde

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

123 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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