ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 106W)

Score

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

NV43

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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