The Quadro NVS 285 was a professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on June 6th, 2006. Built on the 110 nm process, and based on the NV44 graphics processor, in its QD-NVS285-N-A2 variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0c. Since Quadro NVS 285 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV44 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 110 mm² and 75 million transistors. It features 4 pixel shaders and 3 vertex shaders, 4 texture mapping units, and 2 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 128 MB DDR2 memory with the Quadro NVS 285, which are connected using a 64-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 275 MHz, memory is running at 300 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 18 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DMS-59. Quadro NVS 285 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 1.0 x16 interface. The card measures 168 mm in length, and features a single-slot cooling solution.