AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 390 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 390

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

25W

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

NV43

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

438 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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