Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which features core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 603 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 550 should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 43%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be a bit (more or less 5%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (5%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.