In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 are significantly better than the AMD FirePro S9050.

The FirePro S9050 has a 37 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce GTX 780, but the GeForce GTX 780 has 80 more Texture Mapping Units than the FirePro S9050. As a result, the GeForce GTX 780 exhibits a 64.9 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the FirePro S9050. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The FirePro S9050 has a 37 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce GTX 780, but the GeForce GTX 780 has 16 more Render Output Units than the FirePro S9050. As a result, the GeForce GTX 780 exhibits a 12.6 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the FirePro S9050. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The FirePro S9050 was released over a year more recently than the GeForce GTX 780, and so the FirePro S9050 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GeForce GTX 780.

The FirePro S9050 has 9216 MB more video memory than the GeForce GTX 780, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GeForce GTX 780 has superior memory performance.

The GeForce GTX 780 has 24.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the FirePro S9050, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce GTX 780 is slightly better than the FirePro S9050.

The FirePro S9050 has 1792 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 780 has 2304. However, the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9050 is 1371 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 780 is 2078. The GeForce GTX 780 having 707 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GeForce GTX 780 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the FirePro S9050.

The FirePro S9050 requires 225 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 780 requires 250 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the GeForce GTX 780, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the FirePro S9050. The GeForce GTX 780 requires 25 Watts more than the FirePro S9050 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GeForce GTX 780 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the FirePro S9050.