Quadro FX 540 and FirePro S9300 X2 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 540
FirePro S9300 X2
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Capsaicin
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
August 2004
March 2016
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Core clock speed
300 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 6,963 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
8,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
217.6
Memory type
GDDR3
HBM
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131