AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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 HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 39W)

Score

Radeon HD 6490

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Aug 2004

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

NV43

Redwood LE

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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