NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 12 years late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 10
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
9
SM Count
-
1152
Shading Units
-
72
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
NV43
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Pascal
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
110 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
