NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 170W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

NV43

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

276 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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