Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 213376 (1334%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be quite a bit (about 444%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119960 (444%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44440 (494%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.