NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

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 590

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2018

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

175W

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 30

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

110 nm

Process Size

12 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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