NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 29W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2011

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

29W

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

GF119

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

79 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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