Quadro K100M vs Radeon 540

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking712not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency4.98no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameLexaGK107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)22 August 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 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 cores384192
Core clock speed1183 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,200 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate28.3913.60
Floating-point processing power0.9085 TFLOPS0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2416

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 3.0 x8MXM-A (3.0)
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width32 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth24 GB/s12.8 GB/s

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 DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.75.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.31.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 22 August 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

Radeon 540 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Quadro K100M, on the other hand, has 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540 and Quadro K100M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 540 is a desktop card while Quadro K100M is a mobile workstation one.


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