ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 4870 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 286W)

Score

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Aug 2004

Radeon R700

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

286W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

NV43

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

256 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)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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