FirePro W4130M vs Quadro FX 1800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1100not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.03no data
Power efficiency1.22no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameG94Mars
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$489 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores64384
Core clock speed550 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speedno data825 MHz
Number of transistors505 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)59 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.6019.80
Floating-point processing power0.176 TFLOPSno data
ROPs128
TMUs3224

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount768 MB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/s64 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.06.5 (5.1)
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm

W4130M has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1800 and FirePro W4130M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
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