NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Mar 2019

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

-

Shading Units

1408

8

TMUs

88

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

157.1 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 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

TU116

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Curie

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

284 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

7.5

3.0

Shader Model

6.6

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