NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jul 2008
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
768MB
DDR
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
-
Shading Units
48
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
120.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
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 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
G94
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
240 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
