NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.19GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2011

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

-

Shading Units

336

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

160W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GF114

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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