Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 512 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be much (about 30%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8200 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be much (more or less 96%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8600 (96%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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