NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 videocard review

Quadro NVS 290 videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 4 October 2007. At the time of release, the videocard cost $149. The videocard is designed for workstation-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G86.

Core clock speed - 459 MHz. Texture fill rate - 3.67 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 29.376 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 210 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 21 Watt.

Memory type: DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 256 MB. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 6.4 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

228

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

499 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

499.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	228
PassMark - G2D Mark	47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	499 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	499.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G86
Launch date	4 October 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1656
Price now	$37
Type	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.22
Technical info
Core clock speed	459 MHz
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.67 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	21 Watt
Transistor count	210 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2