AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 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 7990 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 7990

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Apr 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

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

25W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

NV43

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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