NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1600MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jul 2017
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1382 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
250 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
16GB
DDR
Memory Type
HBM2
128bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
4096
8
TMUs
256
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 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 XTX LCS
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
