ATI Radeon X850 PRO vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R480 NV43
GPU variant R480 PRO (215RBPAGA11F) NV43 GL
Architecture R400 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 146 million
Die size 297 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 1st, 2004 Aug 9th, 2004
Generation Radeon R400 PCIe Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 279 USD 299 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 58 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R300
Successor Radeon R500 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 507 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 520 MHz 1040 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 33.28 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12 8
Vertex shaders 6 4
TMUs 12 8
ROPs 12 8

Performance

Pixel rate 6.084 GPixel/s 2.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 760.5 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 6.084 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 25 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Board number P229

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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