NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon X1650

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon X1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.000GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

ATI Radeon X1650 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon X1650

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Nov 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV516

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

110 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.105 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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