NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2004
Quadro
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV43
-
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Ampere
Architecture
Curie
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
110 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.146 billion
Unknown
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
3.0
