NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2005

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

8

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

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Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

NV42

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Curie

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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