AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 375 MHz
3.3x more boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 375 MHz
4334.4x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 9 GTexel / s
25.6x more pipelines: 512 vs 20
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 368 vs 275
10.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1857 vs 171

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	1219 MHz vs 375 MHz
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	368 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1857 vs 171

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

368

275

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1857

171

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	368	275
PassMark - G3D Mark	1857	171
Geekbench - OpenCL	9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2296

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Curie
Code name	Cape Verde	G71
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	3rd Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	623	593
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz	375 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1219 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	512	20
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s	9 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)