FirePro W4130M vs Quadro NVS 295

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1364not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.72no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameG98Mars
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 May 2009 (15 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$54.50 no data

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 cores8384
Core clock speed540 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speedno data825 MHz
Number of transistors210 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.32019.80
Floating-point processing power0.0208 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48
TMUs824

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 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length168 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 amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed695 MHz4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth11.12 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 Connectors2x 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 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm

W4130M has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 295 and FirePro W4130M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
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