Green stormwater infrastructure (GI)  is widely adopted for addressing urban flooding challenges. Another rising solution that is complementary to, but distinguishable from GI, is smart real-time control (RTC). However, the outcomes of the battle between RTC and GI has been unknown.  This research compares the performance of RTC and GI to mitigate the climatic and urbanized influences on historical and future urban floods; a case study located in Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, was provided. Results show that RTC and GI have comparable performance to reduce the historical flooding severity from 2001-2015, but RTC outperforms GI for improving flooding resilience in the future. Especially from 2085 to 2099, RTC maintains the system service level against future climatic and urbanized disturbances better than GI. This work improves the understanding about how RTC brings benefits for controlling future urban floods.