NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE 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 50W)

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

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

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

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

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

8

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV560

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

Curie

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

230 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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