Radeon RX 540X vs Quadro 2000

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking830not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.12no data
Power efficiency2.74no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGF106Polaris 23
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date24 December 2010 (13 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192512
Core clock speed625 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1219 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)62 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.0039.01
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3232

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length178 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth41.6 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 December 2010 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 62 Watt 50 Watt

RX 540X has an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 24% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 2000 and Radeon RX 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 2000 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 540X is a notebook one.


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