AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Oct 1999
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32MB
HBM
Memory Type
SDR
4096bit
Memory Bus
64bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
-
256
TMUs
4
64
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
62.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
249.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
499.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
300W
TDP
Unknown
700 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Capsaicin
GPU Name
NV10
Capsaicin XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.0
Shader Model
-
