AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370X 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 34.3x more texture fill rate: 82.4 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
  • 11.2x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Launch date 27 August 2015 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 82.4 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 5600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

  • 7.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 180 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Name AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Geekbench - OpenCL 25659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1139.703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.39
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 88.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 337.583
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348
PassMark - G3D Mark 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 294

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Trinidad NV43 A2
Launch date 27 August 2015 9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $299
Place in performance rating 552 550
Type Desktop Workstation
Price now $59.99
Value for money (0-100) 1.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1030 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,637 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 82.4 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 180 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 221 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 179.2 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3