Quadro FX 470 vs Quadro NVS 290

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1198not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.95no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG86C79
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date4 October 2007 (17 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

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 cores1616
Core clock speed459 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors210 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)21 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6724.640
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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 1.0 x16PCI
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DMS-592x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 80 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 21 Watt 38 Watt

NVS 290 has 81% lower power consumption.

FX 470, on the other hand, has a 23.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 290 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
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