Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking390not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameno dataWeston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateApril 2018 (6 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores768384
Core clock speed1366 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHz891 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data21.38
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6843 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 MB2 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1752 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth84 GB/s28.8 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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (6.0)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan+1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

530 Mobile GDDR5, on the other hand, has a 68166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile and Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.


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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
AMD Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5
Radeon 530 Mobile GDDR5

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