Radeon R5 230 OEM vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 25W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Aug 2004
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
160
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
19W
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
NV43
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
