AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 3.6x more core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 28x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 14x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 50.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4102 vs 81
  • Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 574 vs 294
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 August 2016 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed 1090 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4102 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 574 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 70 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4102
81
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
574
294
Name AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 4102 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 574 294
Geekbench - OpenCL 17646
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 969.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 76.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 239.111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1723

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Curie
Code name Baffin NV43 A2
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 8 August 2016 9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $86 $299
Place in performance rating 551 550
Price now $179.50 $59.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 33.86 1.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Compute units 14
Core clock speed 1090 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 2.2 TFLOPs
GPU Power 35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 896
Stream Processors 896
Texture fill rate 67.2 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 170 mm 198 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore