Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs R9 360 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated175
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.40
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameTobagoNavi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)21 January 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores7682048
Core clock speed1000 MHz1130 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate50.40199.7
Floating-point processing power1.613 TFLOPS6.39 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs48128

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth104.0 GB/s288.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 21 January 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 150 Watt

R9 360 OEM has 76.5% lower power consumption.

RX 5600 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 360 OEM and Radeon RX 5600 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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