NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2015

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GM200

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

8 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

601 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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