NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Tonga

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

5 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

366 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

6.3

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