AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Radeon RX 470

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2004

Arctic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

NV43

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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