AMD Radeon R7 360 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare AMD Radeon R7 360 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 550

Price

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$ 2151.00

$ 225.00

$ 1926.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

538 points

621 points

15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

13 FPS

15 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

14 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

11 FPS

16 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17603 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17970 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16200 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15685 points

16237 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1100 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1183 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

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128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

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112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

50 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.8 Gigapixels/s

18.93 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

50.4 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

49% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

319th of 586

308th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550 beats the Radeon R7 360 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 550 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R7 360 at 100 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon R7 360.