Quadro FX 540: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Quadro FX 540 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.21% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 540 sales 9 August 2004 at a recommended price of $299 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 110 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 198 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 25 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 540: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1388
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.58of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNV43
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date9 August 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 540's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 540's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed300 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors146 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology110 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate2.400of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 540 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length198 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 540: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR
Maximum RAM amount128 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 540. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 540, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 540. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX 540 0.21

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 540 80

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 540 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro FX 540's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro FX 370 104.76
Quadro FX 350 104.76
Quadro FX 540 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 540 is FirePro 2270, which is faster by 76% and higher by 114 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 540:

FirePro V3900 790.48
FirePro 2270 176.19
Quadro FX 540 100

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Community ratings

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