Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M360 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon HD 5550 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5550		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (more or less 207%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5550. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18200 (207%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (approximately 105%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 5550, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4600 (105%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one 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 graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.