NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M vs AMD FirePro M8900

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTG86M
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2011 (12 years old)9 May 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$267 $105

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9608
Core clock speed680 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate32.641.600
Floating-point performance1,305.6 gflops12.8 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro M8900 and Quadro NVS 130M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory-+

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 12 April 2011 9 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 10 Watt

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