NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FirePro V3900

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI FirePro V3900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 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 50W)

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2012

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

Shading Units

480

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Turks

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Turks GL

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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