AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 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 R9 380 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 190W)

Score

Radeon R9 380

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Aug 2004

Pirate Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 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

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

108.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

3.476 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.476 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

217.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

NV43

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

366 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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