NVIDIA NVS 290
The NVIDIA NVS 290 is a workstation graphics card released on October 4, 2007, built on the Tesla architecture. It has 16 shading units and a boost clock of 460 MHz. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.
Depth: 11 recorded fields
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against Wikipedia and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA NVS 290 is based on the Tesla architecture and uses the G86-827-A2 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA NVS 290 has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.
The NVIDIA NVS 290 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA NVS 290. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA NVS 290.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA NVS 290 runs at a base clock of 460 MHz.
Memory
Market
The NVIDIA NVS 290 was released on October 4, 2007.
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA NVS 290 supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA NVS 290. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA NVS 290. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA NVS 290.
Frequently asked questions
When was the NVIDIA NVS 290 released?
The NVIDIA NVS 290 was released on October 4, 2007.
Corrections to this record
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- Architecture: Tesla (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip G86 -> Tesla. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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