NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 45W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jul 2017

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

Shading Units

896

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

45W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

Polaris 21

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

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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