AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 115W)

Score

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2004

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV43

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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