NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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 73W)

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

73W

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

RV630

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

3

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

4

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

5

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

6

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

7

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

8

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon PRO W7500

9

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB

10

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA P102 101

Related News

1

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

2

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

3

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

4

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

5

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

6

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

7

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

8

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

9

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

10

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N