FireGL V8650 vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireGL V8650 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Aug 2004
FireGL
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
868 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
DDR
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
NV43
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
