NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Apr 2021

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

24GB

DDR

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

-

Shading Units

3584

8

TMUs

224

4

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GA100

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

N/A

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

3.0

Shader Model

N/A

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