ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 73W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
NV43
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
