NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs 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
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
