NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 160W)

Score

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 400

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

NV43

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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