NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 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 135W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.48GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Dec 2007
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
820 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
52.48GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
128
8
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
416.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
135W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
G92
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
G92-400-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
324 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
