AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6970 X2 's Advantages

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 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Unknown

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)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

25W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

NV43

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

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

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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