NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2021

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Shading Units

3584

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GA104

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

110 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

3.0

Shader Model

6.7

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