NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

May 2016

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GP104

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Curie

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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