In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy 2GB SOC Edition are very slightly better than the AMD FirePro S9150.

The GTX 680 has a 302 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9150, but the FirePro S9150 has 48 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 680. As a result, the FirePro S9150 exhibits a 4.5 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 680. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 680 has a 302 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9150, but the FirePro S9150 has 32 more Render Output Units than the GTX 680. As a result, the FirePro S9150 exhibits a 19.1 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GTX 680. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The FirePro S9150 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 680, and so the FirePro S9150 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 680.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The FirePro S9150 has 14336 MB more video memory than the GTX 680, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the FirePro S9150 also has superior memory performance overall.

The FirePro S9150 has 127.7 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 680, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is massively better than the GTX 680.

The FirePro S9150 has 2816 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy 2GB SOC Edition has 1536. However, the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 680 is 1946. The FirePro S9150 having 588 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the FirePro S9150 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 680.

The FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 680 Galaxy 2GB SOC Edition requires 195 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GTX 680, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the FirePro S9150. The FirePro S9150 requires 40 Watts more than the GTX 680 to run. The difference is significant enough that the FirePro S9150 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 680.