FirePro S9150 vs FirePro D300

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking443not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code namePitcairnHawaii
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)7 August 2014 (10 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 cores12802816
Core clock speed850 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt235 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00158.4
Floating-point processing power2.176 TFLOPS5.069 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80176

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length242 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth162.6 GB/s320 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 Connectors4x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 January 2014 7 August 2014
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 235 Watt

FirePro D300 has 56.7% lower power consumption.

FirePro S9150, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, and a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D300 and FirePro S9150. We've got no test results to judge.


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