NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro NVS 290 sales 4 October 2007 at a recommended price of $149 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot 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 21 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.59% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 290: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1163 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G86 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 4 October 2007 (16 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $149 | |
| Current price | $68 (0.5x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
Quadro NVS 290's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro NVS 290's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 459 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 21 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.672 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 29.376 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro NVS 290 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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro NVS 290: 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 type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro NVS 290. 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 Connectors | 1x DMS-59 |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro NVS 290, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro NVS 290. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Quadro NVS 290 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.
Relative perfomance
Overall Quadro NVS 290 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
AMD equivalent
It seems that there's no AMD equivalent for Quadro NVS 290. The nearest candidate is FirePro V3900, however, it's 183% faster and higher by 269 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro NVS 290:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro NVS 290 according to our statistics.
