NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 2015

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Pirate Islands

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

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Fiji

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

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

6.3

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