Radeon HD 7530M vs GeForce GTX 280M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking980not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.36no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG92Thames
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years ago)7 January 2012 (12 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 cores128400
Core clock speed585 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors754 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate37.4410.80
Floating-point processing power0.3745 TFLOPS0.36 TFLOPS
Gigaflops562no data
ROPs168
TMUs6424

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 sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IVPCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 950 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth61 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGANo outputs
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.0no data

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
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 7 January 2012
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 11 Watt

HD 7530M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 581.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 280M and Radeon HD 7530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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