AMD Radeon HD 7730 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 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 7730 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Radeon HD 7730

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2004

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

-

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

6.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

614.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

38.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

NV43

Cape Verde LE

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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