NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 2017

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

Shading Units

3584

8

TMUs

224

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

210W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Vega 10

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

110 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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