NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 182W)

Score

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 200

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

4

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

NV43

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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