NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2009

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

48

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

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

G92B

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

260 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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