NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 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 45W)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

45W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV630

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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