Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs GeForce 8800M GTS
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1180 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 1.40 | no data |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) |
| GPU code name | G92 | Sumo |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 1 November 2007 (18 years ago) | 20 June 2011 (14 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 cores | 64 | 320 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 443 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | 1,178 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 32 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | 65 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 16.00 | 7.088 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.16 TFLOPS | 0.2835 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 16 | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | 16 |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | no data |
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).
| Laptop size | large | no data |
| Interface | MXM-HE | IGP |
| Width | no data | IGP |
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 | GDDR3 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA | 1.1 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 November 2007 | 20 June 2011 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 32 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | 65 Watt |
8800M GTS has 30% lower power consumption.
HD 6530D IGP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 103% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800M GTS and Radeon HD 6530D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce 8800M GTS is a notebook graphics card while Radeon HD 6530D IGP is a desktop one.
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