Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which has a core clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 550 should theoretically be a small bit superior to 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 is much (approximately 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

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 550 is the winner, but only just. (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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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