NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 57W)

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Feb 2007

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

57W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

RV570

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

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 (full) 3.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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