Quadro NVS 290 and G72 - video card comparison

Quadro NVS 290

G72

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

G86

G72

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

October 2007

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

459 MHz

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Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

112 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

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Power consumption (TDP)

21 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.672

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Memory type

DDR2

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DMS-59

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

Shader Model

4.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP1