In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 M360 4GB are noticeably better than the Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 2GB.

The R7 M360 has a 260 MHz higher core clock speed and 8 more Texture Mapping Units than the GT 550M. This results in the R7 M360 providing 12.2 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 M360 has a 260 MHz higher core clock speed and 4 more Render Output Units than the GT 550M. This results in the R7 M360 providing 5 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 M360 was released over three years more recently than the GT 550M, and so the R7 M360 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GT 550M when running the latest games.

The R7 M360 has 2048 MB more video memory than the GT 550M, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The GT 550M has 11.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 M360, which means that the memory performance of the GT 550M is slightly better than the R7 M360.

The Radeon R7 M360 4GB has 384 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GT 550M 2GB has 96. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 M360 is 331 and the actual shader performance of the GT 550M is 142. The R7 M360 having 189 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R7 M360 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GT 550M.

The R7 M360 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GT 550M. This means that the R7 M360 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GT 550M.

The Radeon R7 M360 4GB requires 50 Watts to run and the GeForce GT 550M 2GB requires 35 Watts. The R7 M360 requires 15 Watts more than the GT 550M to run. The difference is not significant enough for the R7 M360 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GT 550M.