NVIDIA NVS 300
The NVIDIA NVS 300 is a workstation graphics card released on January 8, 2011, built on the Tesla architecture. It has 16 shading units, 512 MB of DDR3 memory, a boost clock of 589 MHz and a 18 W board power rating. It scores 118 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.
Depth: 32 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA NVS 300 scores 118 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 18.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,349), measured across 355 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 37.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA NVS 300 averages DirectX 9 5 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 355 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA NVS 300 states the PCI-Express x1,x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 589 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2011-04-04. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA NVS 300 is based on the Tesla architecture and uses the GT218 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA NVS 300 has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.
The NVIDIA NVS 300 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 300. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA NVS 300.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA NVS 300 runs at a base clock of 589 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA NVS 300 is equipped with 512 MB of DDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA NVS 300 has a board power rating of 17.5 W and it connects over PCI-Express x1,x16.
Market
The NVIDIA NVS 300 was released on January 8, 2011.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA NVS 300 supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA NVS 300. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA NVS 300. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA NVS 300.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA NVS 300 have?
The NVIDIA NVS 300 has 512 MB of DDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA NVS 300 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA NVS 300 has a board power rating of 17.5 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA NVS 300?
The NVIDIA NVS 300 scores 118 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 18.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #2,349.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA NVS 300 use?
The NVIDIA NVS 300 connects over PCI-Express x1,x16.
When was the NVIDIA NVS 300 released?
The NVIDIA NVS 300 was released on January 8, 2011.
Corrections to this record
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- Architecture: Tesla (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GT218 -> Tesla. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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