Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M360 should in theory perform a lot faster 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 is 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 a lot (approximately 105%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 5550, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.