Quadro NVS 290 vs FirePro D500

Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 and Quadro NVS 290, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.84
+1737%

D500 outperforms NVS 290 by a whopping 1737% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking4271204
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.03
Power efficiency2.711.93
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTahitiG86
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)4 October 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores153616
Core clock speed725 MHz459 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt21 Watt
Texture fill rate69.603.672
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS0.02938 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs968

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length279 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount3 GB256 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s6.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI1x DMS-59

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.84 0.59
Recency 18 January 2014 4 October 2007
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 21 Watt

FirePro D500 has a 1737.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

NVS 290, on the other hand, has 1204.8% lower power consumption.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro NVS 290 in performance tests.


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