NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3650 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 65W)

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jan 2008

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R600(HD 3600)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.900 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

174.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV635

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO AGP (215-0682020)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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