NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FireGL V8650

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI FireGL V8650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

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

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 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

2GB

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

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

R600

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

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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