NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

-

Shading Units

8960

8

TMUs

280

4

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

350W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

110 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

628 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

6.6

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