NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 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

266 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Shading Units

64

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

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

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