NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 20 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2512MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Mar 2025
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2325 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
-
Shading Units
6144
8
TMUs
192
4
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
GB205
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
263 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
10.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.8
