In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro S9150 are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 Golden Sample Edition.

The FirePro S9150 has a 250 MHz higher core clock speed and 120 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 470. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 122 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 250 MHz higher core clock speed and 24 more Render Output Units than the GTX 470. This results in the FirePro S9150 providing 31.6 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 470, 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 470 when running the latest games.

The FirePro S9150 has 15104 MB more video memory than the GTX 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 184 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 470, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro S9150 is massively better than the GTX 470.

The FirePro S9150 has 2816 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 470 Golden Sample Edition has 448. However, the actual shader performance of the FirePro S9150 is 2534 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 470 is 582. The FirePro S9150 having 1952 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 470.

The FirePro S9150 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 470. This means that the FirePro S9150 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 470.

The FirePro S9150 requires 235 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 470 Golden Sample Edition requires 215 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GTX 470, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the FirePro S9150. The FirePro S9150 requires 20 Watts more than the GTX 470 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 GTX 470.