NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 150W)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Mar 2013

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Pitcairn

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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