Radeon HD 7540D IGP vs Quadro FX 3800

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking863not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.06no data
Power efficiency1.38no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BScrapper
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)2 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$799 $67

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192192
Core clock speed600 MHz760 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate38.409.120
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPS0.2918 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs6412

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 2 October 2012
Chip lithography 55 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 65 Watt

HD 7540D IGP has an age advantage of 3 years, a 71.9% more advanced lithography process, and 66.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3800 and Radeon HD 7540D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 3800 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 7540D IGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
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