NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 320W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

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

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

-

272

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

320W

TDP

25W

700 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

GA102

GPU Name

NV43

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

628 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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