NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 180W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Apr 2017
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
180W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
GP104
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Curie
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
