In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro S9000 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition.

The R7 260X has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9000, but the FirePro S9000 has 56 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the FirePro S9000 exhibits a 43.1 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 260X. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 260X has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9000, but the FirePro S9000 has 16 more Render Output Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the FirePro S9000 exhibits a 12.3 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 260X. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 260X was released over a year more recently than the FirePro S9000, and so the R7 260X is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the FirePro S9000.

The FirePro S9000 has 5120 MB more video memory than the R7 260X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the FirePro S9000 also has superior memory performance overall.

The FirePro S9000 has 168 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9000 is massively better than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro S9000 has 1792. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9000 is 1371. The FirePro S9000 having 587 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the FirePro S9000 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts to run and the FirePro S9000 requires 225 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X. The FirePro S9000 requires 120 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is significant enough that the FirePro S9000 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 260X.