Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 will be 121% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (approximately 192%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96560 (192%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (more or less 218%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36640 (218%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.