AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost 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 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 200W)

Score

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

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

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV43

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x 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

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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