ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 5690 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 64W)

Score

Radeon HD 5690

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Aug 2004

Evergreen

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

400

Shading Units

-

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

64W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

NV43

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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