AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 254W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Sep 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

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

NV43

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

255 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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