AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 6950 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 200W)

Score

Radeon HD 6950

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Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

-

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV43

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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