NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 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 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 19 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Oct 2023
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
3072
8
TMUs
192
4
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
DG2-512
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Curie
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
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
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
6.6
