NVIDIA Quadro P600 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P600 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

NVIDIA Quadro P600

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P600

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 5 month(s) later
4.4x more core clock speed: 1329 MHz vs 300 MHz
14.6x more texture fill rate: 34.92 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 4012 MHz vs 500 MHz
40.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3315 vs 81
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 542 vs 294

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 February 2017 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed	1329 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.92 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4012 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3315 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark	542 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 40 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 40 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P600
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3315

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

542

294

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P600	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
PassMark - G3D Mark	3315	81
PassMark - G2D Mark	542	294
Geekbench - OpenCL	11181
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	141.164
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4662
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4662
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P600	NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Curie
Code name	GP107	NV43 A2
Launch date	7 February 2017	9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$178	$299
Place in performance rating	556	555
Price now	$169.99	$59.99
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	22.11	1.71
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1557 MHz
Core clock speed	1329 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,117 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	34.92 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	3,300 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.19 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4012 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3