NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 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 650 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 65W)

Score

GeForce GTX 650

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

384

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

NV43

GK107-450-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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