Radeon HD 8530M vs GeForce GTX 980M SLI

#ad 
Buy on Amazon
VS

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.12no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameno dataMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)10 January 2014 (11 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 cores3072320
Core clock speed1038 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1127 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data11.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.448 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 10 January 2014

GTX 980M SLI has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Radeon HD 8530M. We've got no test results to judge.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite graphics card.


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M SLI
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 8530M
Radeon HD 8530M

Other comparisons

We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.

Community ratings

Here you can see the user ratings of the compared graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself.


3.3 56 votes

Rate GeForce GTX 980M SLI on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
3.6 9 votes

Rate Radeon HD 8530M on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Comments

Here you can give us your opinion about GeForce GTX 980M SLI or Radeon HD 8530M, agree or disagree with our ratings, or report errors or inaccuracies on the site.