Amp or DAC?

@kijanki I agree that it may be the other way around and I’ve heard  it mentioned that this can be the case. I did my own comparison of with a 60w into 8 integrated amp that is stable down to 2ohms compared to a 225 into 8 amp, 425 into 4, and aside from the sound signature differences, I didn’t feel like one was controlling the speakers better than the other. 
Granted, there were other differences as the lower powered amp was class AB vs class D for the higher powered one, but both seemed to have the type of parts and engineering necessary to drive moderately difficult speakers (LS50 and the Unifi UB5) for a lesser amp.

For the integrated amp, I think most of the improvements are DAC based up the range , since they seem to share, from what I can tell, mainly the same amplification tech.

will sound different - many reasons why, too many to enumerate

power ratings are very rough guides... not informative beyond 150 more than 50 more than 10 - depends on type of amp too

re- dac ... no

Absolute power is only one of the dimensions that matter: obviously, if you are trying to drive a difficult speaker load at say 80db efficiency, a lot of power is required. Conversely if you are driving 110db horn speakers a humble 2A3 valve amp pushing out 2-3 W is plenty sufficient. Generally bigger power means bigger power transformers and consequently greater emission of EMI, the shielding in other words gets more challenging. 
Where it really gets interesting: a clean renderer and DAC, i.e. units with a very low noise floor can increase the perceived loudness. Since the amp has to amplify only clean signal rather than a lot of grunge on top, the perceived result appears louder. NB: there is no increase in power, just perception.

I have no idea what you’re running but a well implemented purifi or Ncore class D amps will better most AB amps in noise except the Benchmark AHB2. Your DAC, even ones that don’t measure state of the art should have less noise than good SS amps. I wouldn’t worry about the watts to much unless your speakers need more power. I have 500w class D doing bass and 2x250 W class D on mid and tweeter in an active speaker and I never have any problem with noise.

@djones51 it was a Purifi compared to a Hegel H90. Great clarity/quickness with the Purifi, but didn’t notice any more ‘control’ of the woofers from one vs the other. 
Have you compared an AHB2 with your class D amps?