NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

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 580

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2017

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 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

42.88 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

185W

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Polaris 20

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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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