NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 365W)

Score

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 500

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

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.5 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

GF110

GPU Name

NV43

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

520 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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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