NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Oct 2017

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Baffin

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Curie

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

110 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

3 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

123 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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