NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Hawaii

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

438 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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