Radeon RX 540X vs Quadro FX 4500 SDI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG70Polaris 23
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date30 January 2006 (18 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)

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 coresno data512
Core clock speed430 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1219 MHz
Number of transistors302 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)116 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.3239.01
Floating-point processing powerno data1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width3-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 amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed525 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth33.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo 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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 January 2006 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 116 Watt 50 Watt

RX 540X has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 132% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4500 SDI and Radeon RX 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4500 SDI is a workstation card while Radeon RX 540X is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI
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