FirePro S7000 vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Aug 2004
FirePro
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1280
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
25W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
NV43
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
