Radeon 540X vs Quadro FX 4600 SDI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated701
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.15
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG80Lexa
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date5 March 2007 (17 years ago)5 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,999 no data

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 cores96512
Core clock speed500 MHz980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1046 MHz
Number of transistors681 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)154 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0033.47
Floating-point processing power0.2304 TFLOPS1.071 TFLOPS
ROPs2416
TMUs2432

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount768 MB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth67.2 GB/s48 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2007 5 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 154 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 540X has an age advantage of 11 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 208% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4600 SDI and Radeon 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4600 SDI is a workstation card while Radeon 540X is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI
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