AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 105W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Aug 2004
FireStream
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
NV43
-
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
