Quadro NVS 290 vs GRID A100B
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100B to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (21W vs 400W)
GRID A100B 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1005MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
6896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro NVS 290
29
GRID A100B
+47796%
13890
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
May 2020
Quadro NVS
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
48GB
DDR2
Memory Type
HBM2e
64bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
108
16
Shading Units
6912
8
TMUs
432
4
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
21W
TDP
400W
200 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
1x DMS-59
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GA100
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
N/A
3.3
OpenGL
N/A
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
8.0
4.0
Shader Model
N/A
