NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX Go540 sales 9 August 2004. This is a Curie architecture notebook card based on 110 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.23 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 7.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 25 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX Go540: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV43 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 9 August 2004 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX Go540's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX Go540's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 146 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.400 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX Go540 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).
| Interface | MXM-II | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX Go540: 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 type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 225 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 7.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX Go540. 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 Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro FX Go540, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial) | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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