NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs 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
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
