ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Aug 2004

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

NV43

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

R500

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

2.1

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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