In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro S9150 are massively better than the Nvidia Quadro 6000.

The FirePro S9150 has a 326 MHz higher core clock speed and 120 more Texture Mapping Units than the Quadro 6000. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 126.3 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The FirePro S9150 has a 326 MHz higher core clock speed and 16 more Render Output Units than the Quadro 6000. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 30 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. 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 three years more recently than the Quadro 6000, and so the FirePro S9150 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Quadro 6000 when running the latest games.

The FirePro S9150 has 10240 MB more video memory than the Quadro 6000, 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 176.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Quadro 6000, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is massively better than the Quadro 6000.

The FirePro S9150 has 2816 Shader Processing Units and the Quadro 6000 has 448. However, the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534 and the actual shader performance of the Quadro 6000 is 514. The FirePro S9150 having 2020 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 Quadro 6000.

The FirePro S9150 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the Quadro 6000. This means that the FirePro S9150 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Quadro 6000.

The FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts to run and the Quadro 6000 requires 204 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the Quadro 6000, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the FirePro S9150. The FirePro S9150 requires 31 Watts more than the Quadro 6000 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 Quadro 6000.