AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Aug 2004

Polaris

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

NV43

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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