NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.000GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

Lower TDP (25W vs 40W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce 8400 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

40W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

G86

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

G86-213-A2

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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