NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 289W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jan 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

999 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Shading Units

240

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

28

-

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

289W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GT200B

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

Curie

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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