NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 90W)

Score

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

NV43

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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