In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro S9150 are massively better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 v3 MSI OC v4 896MB Edition.

The FirePro S9150 has a 245 MHz higher core clock speed and 104 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 260. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 111.2 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 245 MHz higher core clock speed and 36 more Render Output Units than the GTX 260. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 39.3 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 GTX 260, 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 GTX 260 when running the latest games.

The FirePro S9150 has 15488 MB more video memory than the GTX 260, 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 202.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 260, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is massively better than the GTX 260.

The GeForce GTX 260 v3 MSI OC v4 896MB Edition has 216 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro S9150 has 2816. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 260 is 325 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534. The FirePro S9150 having 2209 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 260.

The FirePro S9150 transistor size technology is 27 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 260. This means that the FirePro S9150 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 260.

The GeForce GTX 260 v3 MSI OC v4 896MB Edition requires 171 Watts to run and the FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the GTX 260. The FirePro S9150 requires 64 Watts more than the GTX 260 to run. The difference is significant enough that the FirePro S9150 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 260.