This seems to indicate that orbital weapons are so powerful that anything that you could possibly build on the surface is completely harmless by comparison. From this, I'd say that the firepower of the Sins universe is many, many orders of magnitude higher than either of those two.
I disagree- not due to fanboyism, mind you, but on the basis that the inverse might very well be true instead.
That is to say, it might be that surface weapons simply lack the firepower to harm orbital targets; the engineering simply 'hasn't caught up', so to speak. Whether this is due to an inherent limit in surface weapons emplacement designs, or, IMO more likely, sufficient enough protection equipped aboard the starships to make surface ordnance negligible.
Alternately, it might be that the dominance of orbital bombardment is due to the sheer cost of sending down surface teams, especially on an interplanetary, let alone interstellar, scale.
Also another question I wonder... Is SINS on 40K levels of firepower or is it only on Halo level of firepower?
In the case of the former, having done a great deal of reading on the subject, I can safely say that it is impossible to determine. This is a result of the rampant inconsistency in that aspect of 40K writings. The numbers that were done up ranged from "low/medium megatons" to "high gigatons/low teratons"- and that's for the same ship class, same fittings. And also ignoring the equally rampant inconsistency WRT ship sizes of 40K.
So asking if SoaSE is on 40K level of anything is like asking a bunch of people if they like a particular thing- you're likely to get such wildly differing answers that it can be impossible to determine an aggregate 'value', if you will.