GeForce GTS 450 vs Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Quadro FX 540 Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 106W)

Score

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Aug 2004

GeForce 400

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

NV43

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full)

2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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