NVIDIA GeForce 6500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 666 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 300 vs 294

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2005 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Memory clock speed	666 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	300 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 81 vs 38

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	81 vs 38

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6500
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

294

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 6500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
PassMark - G3D Mark	38	81
PassMark - G2D Mark	300	294

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	NV44 A2	NV43 A2
Launch date	1 October 2005	9 August 2004
Place in performance rating	547	550
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Price now		$59.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	75 million	146 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.66 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3