NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 16

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

-

88

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

NV43

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Turing

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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