ATI FirePro V3700 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FirePro V3700 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V3700 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (15.20GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
40 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 32W)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Aug 2004
FirePro
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
950 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
15.20GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
40
Shading Units
-
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
3.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
64.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV620
GPU Name
NV43
RV620 GL
(215-0670004)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.181 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
