Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5450		19 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 81 Watts (426%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 5450 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 91200 (713%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (approximately 869%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		5200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45200 (869%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the Radeon HD 5450, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		2600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14200 (546%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.