AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon 550X

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Aug 2004

Polaris

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.95 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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