In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 are massively better than the Nvidia GeForce 7050.

The Quadro NVS 290 was released less than a year after the GeForce 7050, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The Quadro NVS 290 has 128 MB more video memory than the GeForce 7050, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Quadro NVS 290 also has superior memory performance overall.

The Quadro NVS 290 has 1.1 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce 7050, which means that the memory performance of the Quadro NVS 290 is marginally better than the GeForce 7050.

The Quadro NVS 290 has 16 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce 7050 has 2. However, the actual shader performance of the Quadro NVS 290 is 18 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce 7050 is 1. The Quadro NVS 290 having 17 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Quadro NVS 290 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce 7050.

The Quadro NVS 290 requires 21 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce 7050.