NVS 300: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started NVS 300 sales 8 January 2011 at a recommended price of $109 . This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 512 MB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.58 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 18 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about NVS 300: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT218
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	8 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109
Current price	$101 (0.9x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Detailed specifications

NVS 300's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of NVS 300'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	520 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	260 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	4.160	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of NVS 300 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 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on NVS 300: 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	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on NVS 300. 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 compatibility

APIs supported by NVS 300, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of NVS 300. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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