NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

GeForce GTX 660

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

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

GK106

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Curie

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

221 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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