NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 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 65W)

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

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 650

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Sep 2012

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GK107

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GK107-450-A2

Curie

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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