S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
started S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX sales 19 February 2009 at a recommended price of $69. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Chrome architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 13.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 131 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Chrome (2008−2012) | |
| GPU code name | Destination 4 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 19 February 2009 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $69 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 800 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 131 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.200 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0704 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 850 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 13.6 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.0 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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