NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 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 32W)

ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jan 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

32W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV516

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

110 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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