NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Unknown

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

837 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1280MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Shading Units

448

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

40

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

215W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GT215

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

Curie

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

144 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

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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