NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
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
1024MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
107.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
11
-
Shading Units
352
8
TMUs
44
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
215W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
3x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
GF100
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
Curie
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
529 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
