AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 348 vs 265
  • 81.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1952 vs 24
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 22 December 2003
Core clock speed 1219 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 348 vs 265
PassMark - G3D Mark 1952 vs 24

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

  • 5.9x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 65 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 11 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
348
265
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1952
24
Name AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
PassMark - G2D Mark 348 265
PassMark - G3D Mark 1952 24
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 NVS 210S

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Cape Verde MCP51
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 22 December 2003
Place in performance rating 642 640
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1219 MHz 425 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 512
Pixel fill rate 19.50 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 11 Watt
Transistor count 1,500 million 75 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 PCI
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

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)