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AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon HD 6970
VS
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
AMD Radeon HD 6970
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

VS

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

-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

250W
TDP
25W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Cayman
GPU Name
NV43
Cayman XT (215-0807007)
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

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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0

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