
Quadro FX 5500 and Quadro NVS 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 5500 vs Quadro NVS 290
Quadro FX 5500
249
Quadro NVS 290
235
Quadro FX 5500
Quadro NVS 290
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G86
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
April 2006
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
16
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
21 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
3.672
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1010 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32.32 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A