Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be a lot (about 200%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100696 (200%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38144 (227%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.