NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G72 NV43
GPU variant GF-7300GS-N-A3 NV43 GL
Architecture Curie Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 112 million 146 million
Die size 81 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 18th, 2006 Aug 9th, 2004
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 42 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8
Launch price 299 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 450 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 4.256 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 8
Vertex shaders 3 4
TMUs 4 8
ROPs 2 8

Performance

Pixel rate 900.0 MPixel/s 2.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 337.5 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.800 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 23 W 25 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P381 P229
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 3.0

Other Features

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