NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Mar 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

1000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

128

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

G92B

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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