Radeon 550 vs R7 360

Place in the ranking	512	609
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.09	4.37
Power efficiency	5.59	7.29
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Tobago	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	18 June 2015 (9 years ago)	20 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	$79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Radeon 550 has 7% better value for money than R7 360.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	512
Core clock speed	no data	1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1183 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	50.40	37.86
Floating-point processing power	1.613 TFLOPS	1.211 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	48	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	165 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	None
Bridgeless CrossFire	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	56 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity	+	-
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	+
DisplayPort support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
TrueAudio	+	-
VCE	+	-
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.3	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.1
Vulkan	+	1.3
Mantle	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 360 8.05
+53.3%

Radeon 550 5.25

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R7 360 3105
+53.2%

Radeon 550 2027