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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 is a workstation graphics card. It has 128 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 300 MHz and a 35 W board power rating. It scores 81 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

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4/10 key specs recorded · 21 facts

Depth: 27 recorded fields

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

128 MB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

300 MHz base

Board power

35 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 scores 81 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 14.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,465), measured across 27 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 294.

PassMark G3D Mark

Rank #2,465
Faster than 14.6% of 2,658 GPUs
27 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe x16

Max memory 128 MB

Core clock 300 MHz

Memory clock 550 MHz

DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.1

Max TDP 35 W

First benchmarked 2009-04-02

Samples 27

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 states the PCIe x16 interface, up to 128 MB of memory, a core clock of 300 MHz, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1, first benchmarked on 2009-04-02. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

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Codename NV43GL

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 uses the NV43GL graphics processor.

Shader configuration

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Texture units (TMUs) 8

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 8 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540.

Clock speeds

Base clock 300 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 runs at a base clock of 300 MHz.

Memory

Size 128 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 is equipped with 128 MB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 has a board power rating of 35 W and it connects over PCIe x16.

Board power (TDP) 35 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

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Bus interface PCIe x16

Market

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Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 81

PassMark G2D 294

Rank #2,465

Samples 27

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

DirectX 9.0c (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2.1

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540.