NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q vs AMD FirePro S9000

Place in performance ranking	357	352
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	4.27	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	Tahiti	GM204
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 August 2012 (11 years old)	30 August 2015 (8 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data
Current price	$433 (0.2x MSRP)	no data

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	1792	2048
Core clock speed	900 MHz	557 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1178 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	100.8	150.8
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops	4,833 gflops

Size and 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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	160.4 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.126
CUDA	no data	5.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro S9000 13.06

GRID M60-2Q 13.43
+2.8%

GRID M60-2Q outperforms FirePro S9000 by 3% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro S9000 5059

GRID M60-2Q 5203
+2.8%

GRID M60-2Q outperforms FirePro S9000 by 3% in Passmark.