In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon RX 470 PowerColour Red Dragon 4GB are noticeably better than the AMD FirePro S9150.

The RX 470 has a 26 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9150, but the FirePro S9150 has 48 more Texture Mapping Units than the RX 470. As a result, the FirePro S9150 exhibits a 39.9 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the RX 470. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The RX 470 has a 26 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9150, but the FirePro S9150 has 32 more Render Output Units than the RX 470. As a result, the FirePro S9150 exhibits a 28 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the RX 470. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The RX 470 was released over a year more recently than the FirePro S9150, and so the RX 470 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the FirePro S9150.

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 12288 MB more video memory than the RX 470, 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 108.8 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the RX 470, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is massively better than the RX 470.

The Radeon RX 470 PowerColour Red Dragon 4GB has 2048 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro S9150 has 2816. However, the actual shader performance of the RX 470 is 2478 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534. The FirePro S9150 having 56 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 RX 470.

The RX 470 transistor size technology is 14 nm (nanometers) smaller than the FirePro S9150. This means that the RX 470 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the FirePro S9150.

The Radeon RX 470 PowerColour Red Dragon 4GB requires 120 Watts to run and the FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the RX 470. The FirePro S9150 requires 115 Watts more than the RX 470 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 RX 470.