Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5500 .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R7 360
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1408vs768
Compute Units22vs12
Core clock1670 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs88vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R7 360
TDP150 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better