In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon RX 590 MSI Armor OC 8GB are significantly better than the AMD FirePro S9150.

The RX 590 has a 569 MHz higher core clock speed but 32 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the FirePro S9150. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the RX 590 manages to provide 53.1 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 RX 590 has a 569 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro S9150, but the FirePro S9150 has 32 more Render Output Units than the RX 590. As a result, the FirePro S9150 exhibits a 10.6 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the RX 590. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The RX 590 was released over three years more recently than the FirePro S9150, and so the RX 590 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the FirePro S9150 when running the latest games.

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 8192 MB more video memory than the RX 590, 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 64 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the RX 590, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is much better than the RX 590.

The Radeon RX 590 MSI Armor OC 8GB has 2304 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro S9150 has 2816. However, the actual shader performance of the RX 590 is 3594 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534. The RX 590 having 1060 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the RX 590 delivers a significantly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the FirePro S9150.

The RX 590 transistor size technology is 16 nm (nanometers) smaller than the FirePro S9150. This means that the RX 590 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the FirePro S9150.

The Radeon RX 590 MSI Armor OC 8GB requires 220 Watts to run and the FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the RX 590. The FirePro S9150 requires 15 Watts more than the RX 590 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the FirePro S9150 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the RX 590.