
Quadro FX 1500 and Quadro FX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 1500 vs Quadro FX 540
Quadro FX 1500
174
Quadro FX 540
82
Quadro FX 1500
Quadro FX 540
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G71
NV43 A2
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
April 2006
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
325 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
146 million
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.800
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
40 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A