In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro S9050 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 S9050, but the FirePro S9050 has 56 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the FirePro S9050 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 S9050, but the FirePro S9050 has 16 more Render Output Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the FirePro S9050 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 FirePro S9050 was released less than a year after the R7 260X, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The FirePro S9050 has 11264 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 S9050 also has superior memory performance overall.

The FirePro S9050 has 168 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9050 is massively better than the R7 260X.

The FirePro S9050 has 1792 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896. However, the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9050 is 1371 and the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784. The FirePro S9050 having 587 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the FirePro S9050 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 260X.

The FirePro S9050 requires 225 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the FirePro S9050. The FirePro S9050 requires 120 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is significant enough that the FirePro S9050 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 260X.