Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M360 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 5450 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5450		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be quite a bit (more or less 419%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5450. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		5200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21800 (419%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (about 246%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 5450, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5450		2600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (246%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.