NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

May 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

868 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

159W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

R600

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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