NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 49W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Oct 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

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

49W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

GF108-300-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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