GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 540 Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
NV43
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
