Quadro NVS 290 vs GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 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 225W)
GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro NVS 290
29
GRID K2
+7793%
2289
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
May 2013
Quadro NVS
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
1536
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
21W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DMS-59
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
