NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Mar 2010

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

924 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

-

Shading Units

480

8

TMUs

60

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GF100

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GF100-375-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

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