NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 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

850 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GT215

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Curie

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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