Quadro FX 540 and FirePro S10000 Passive - video card comparison
Quadro FX 540
FirePro S10000 Passive
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Tahiti
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
August 2004
November 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
950 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 3,405 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
750 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
106.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
480 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131