Quadro2 Pro vs FirePro W4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	NV15 A4
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	7 August 2012 (12 years ago)	22 March 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	no data
Core clock speed	825 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	25 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	39.60	0.8
Floating-point processing power	1.267 gflops	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	48	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	183 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	7.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 August 2012	22 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	180 nm

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