ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs GeForce 8800 GS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1133not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.56no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG92Cedar
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 January 2008 (16 years ago)17 March 2011 (13 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 cores9680
Core clock speed550 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors754 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)105 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate26.405.200
Floating-point processing power0.264 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUs488

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm170 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount384 MB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/s9.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2008 17 March 2011
Maximum RAM amount 384 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 105 Watt 19 Watt

ATI HD 5530 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 452.6% lower power consumption.

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