NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 34.6x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 70.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5726 vs 81
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 391 vs 294
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed 924 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5726 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 391 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 81 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 81 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5726
81
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
391
294
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 5726 81
PassMark - G2D Mark 391 294
Geekbench - OpenCL 18376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2283

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Curie
Code name GM204 NV43 A2
Launch date 7 October 2014 9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $2,560.89 $299
Place in performance rating 548 550
Price now $1,899 $59.99
Type Laptop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 3.99 1.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 924 MHz 300 MHz
CUDA cores 1280
Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 81 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 198 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 120 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI