Nowadays I think it is superior. I use both "weekly/daily".

rpm (at least in Fedora) uses transactions to make sure the system stays consistent even if something nasty like battery goes empty middle of upgrading.

Also secure wise it is more secure policy to have GPG singatures embedded (like in rpm) in each software package than have all packages unsigned and then just whole distribution GPG-signed (like in deb). The deb policy leaves practically nasty MITM vulnerability which has often seen also in t.m.o.