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Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The Radeon HD 5550 makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 550 MHz. The DDR2 memory is set to run at a frequency of 400 MHz on this card. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 5550 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5550 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 91200 (713%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a lot (approximately 473%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5550. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5550 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 41600 (473%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (about 282%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5550, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5550 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12400 (282%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5550 Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year February 9, 2010 June 2015
Code Name Redwood LE Tobago
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 768
Texture Mapping Units 16 48
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 627 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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