AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT and NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 39x more texture fill rate: 93.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 12x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 55.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4470 vs 81
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 661 vs 294
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 November 2012 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 93.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4470 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

  • 7.4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 185 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4470
81
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
661
294
Name AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 4470 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.399
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1230.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 78.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 345.793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3264
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2810
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3264
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1745

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Tahiti NV43 A2
Launch date 19 November 2012 9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $270 $299
Place in performance rating 548 550
Type Desktop Workstation
Price now $59.99
Value for money (0-100) 1.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 975 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 93.6 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3