NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2016

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

110 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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