Quadro NVS 285: specs and benchmarks

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Quadro NVS 285 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.10% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 285 sales 6 June 2006 at a recommended price of $27.99. This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 110 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 18 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 285: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1498
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.45of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNV44 A2
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date6 June 2006 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$27.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Quadro NVS 285's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 285's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed275 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors75 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology110 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate1.100of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs2of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs4of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 285 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 285: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR
Maximum RAM amount128 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed250 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 285. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DMS-59

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Quadro NVS 285, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro NVS 285. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

NVS 285
0.10

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

NVS 285 43
Samples: 146

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro NVS 285 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

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