NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 365W)
Score
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 400
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
-
60
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
25W
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
NV43
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Fermi
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
529 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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
