Quadro NVS 290 and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Quadro NVS 290
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G86
N10E-GS
Market segment
Workstation
Laptop
Release date
October 2007
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
459 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
96
Power consumption (TDP)
21 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.672
17.60
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DMS-59
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0