Quadro2 MXR Low Profile vs FirePro S9300 X2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameCapsaicinNV11 B2
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date31 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 cores4096no data
Core clock speed850 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate217.60.8
Floating-point processing power6.963 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs2564

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 3.0 x16AGP 4x
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBMSDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB32 MB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s2.928 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)7.0
Shader Model6.0no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


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

S9300 X2 has an age advantage of 15 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9300 X2 and Quadro2 MXR Low Profile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD FirePro S9300 X2
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