NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Curacao

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

212 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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