NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2021

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

-

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

60W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GA107

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

110 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

Unknown

154 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

3.0

Shader Model

6.6

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