Quadro2 MXR vs FirePro S9300 X2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Capsaicin	NV11 B2
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	31 March 2016 (8 years ago)	25 July 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999	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 cores	4096	no data
Core clock speed	850 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	8,900 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	217.6	0.8
Floating-point processing power	6.963 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	256	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

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 type	HBM	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	2.928 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 Connectors

No outputs

1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	7.0
Shader Model	6.0	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 March 2016	25 July 2000
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	180 nm

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