AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 300W)

Score

Radeon Sky 900

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Aug 2004

Radeon Sky

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/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

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

25W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV43

Orthrus

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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