NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 320 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 43W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.28GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
72 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Feb 2010
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
25.28GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
9
-
Shading Units
72
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.96 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
187.5 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
43W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 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
GT215-250-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
