NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI FirePro V7900 SDI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI 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 150W)
ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
May 2011
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1280
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
1.856 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x SDI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Cayman
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO GL
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
389 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
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
5.0
