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 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 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 21 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro NVS 290: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1200
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.96	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	G86
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	4 October 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$149	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	459 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	210 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	21 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	3.672	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.02938 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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

VRAM capacity and type

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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 compatibility

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 RTX 4090)
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 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.

NVS 290 0.59

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 290 228

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.

Closest competitors

Quadro NVS 290's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.

Quadro FX 5500 106.78

Quadro FX 4500 X2 103.39

Quadro FX 4500 100

Quadro NVS 290 100

Quadro FX 570 96.61

AMD equivalent

It seems that there's no AMD equivalent for Quadro NVS 290. The nearest candidate is FirePro V3900, however, it's 181% faster and higher by 258 positions in our rating.