NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

-

Shading Units

1152

8

TMUs

72

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GP104

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Curie

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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