AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Radeon RX 560

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2004

Polaris

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

NV43

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

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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