NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 480

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 400

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

-

60

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

NV43

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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