AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 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 9370 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 225W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Aug 2004
FireStream
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
25W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV43
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
334 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
