NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 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 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2010

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GF108

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

Curie

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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