FirePro S9300 X2 vs Quadro NVS 210S

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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
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameC51Capsaicin
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 December 2003 (20 years ago)31 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$5,999

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 coresno data4096
Core clock speed425 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors75 million8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate0.85217.6
Floating-point processing powerno data6.963 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs2256

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeSystem SharedHBM
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.0
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 31 March 2016
Chip lithography 90 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 300 Watt

NVS 210S has 2627.3% lower power consumption.

S9300 X2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 210S and FirePro S9300 X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
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AMD FirePro S9300 X2
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