Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition vs Quadro NVS 290
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (21W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
+1493%
462
Quadro NVS 290
29
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Oct 2007
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro NVS
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
76.80GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
2
192
Shading Units
16
64
TMUs
8
24
ROPs
4
192 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
14.45 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
38.53 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
462.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
57.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
21W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G86
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
