ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

40 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.000GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

Lower TDP (25W vs 30W)

Score

Radeon HD 3550

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Aug 2004

Radeon R600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

40

Shading Units

-

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

NV43

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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