Tesla V100 SXM2 vs Quadro NVS 290

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1200not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.94no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameG86GV100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date4 October 2007 (17 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores165120
Core clock speed459 MHz1370 MHz
Number of transistors210 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)21 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate3.672438.4
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4128
TMUs8320

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1758 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s900.1 GB/s

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-59no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12.0
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.17.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 October 2007 21 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 21 Watt 250 Watt

NVS 290 has 1090.5% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 SXM2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 290 and Tesla V100 SXM2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
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