NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2022

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

-

Shading Units

4864

8

TMUs

152

4

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA103S

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

110 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

Unknown

154 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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