NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

148W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GM204

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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