NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 9
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
NV43
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
