NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

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GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Aug 2012

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

823 MHz

-

Boost Clock

888 MHz

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1152

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

130W

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

GK104

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Curie

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

294 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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