10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Based on current gaming requirements the FirePro S9150 is considered one of the weakest cards and wont meet modern AAA game specs.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 11.

Lets look at the FirePro S9150 game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2022. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 182 games in the list.

A FirePro S9150 card at 1080p is seeing a weak frame rate when running Resident Evil 8 on Ultra - 0 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Battlefield 2042 which is 0 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Star Citizen is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a playable 29 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Resident Evil 8 which delivered weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Next we have Battlefield 2042 running on FirePro S9150 which gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Star Citizen is predicted to get L: 57FPS, M: 45FPS, H: 30FPS, U: 22FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the FirePro S9150 is not powerful enough to deal with the increased resolution.

How many years will the FirePro S9150 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the FirePro S9150 in your PC? There is around 6-12 months of top end gaming left in this card, at which point its graphics card replacement time, assuming the FirePro S9150 is part of your PC gaming machine.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the FirePro S9150? A great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, which has 67% better performance and can run 726 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the FirePro S9150 is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300, which is 34% more powerful and can run 305 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.