GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 90W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 30
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
90W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV43
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Ampere
Architecture
Curie
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
110 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
3.0
